Lam Research led dry etch market in 2005, says research firm
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Press release, March 31; Esther Lam, DigiTimes.com [Friday 31 March 2006]
Despite the global dry etch market for semiconductor production taking a nose dive in 2005, Lam Research’s market share grew four percentage points to 35% making it the largest dry etch equipment maker, according to research firm The Information Network (TIN).
The dry etch market for semiconductor production dropped 15% in 2005, in contrast to a record growth of 92% it recorded in 2004, said the research firm.
“Lam Research led the US$3 billion market dry etch market with a 35% share, up from 31% in 2004 and ahead of Applied Materials,” said Dr Castellano, president of the firm. “Revenues were down 10% at Tokyo Electron (TEL) and 13% at Hitachi,” added Castellano.
The dry etch market is earmarked to drop another 4.5% in 2006 to US$2.9 billion, but is projected to grow to US$4.5 billion in 2008 to surpass its revenue peak of US$4.2 billion achieved in 2000, stated the research firm.
The dielectric etch sector, in the meantime, also had a market setback from 2004’s 111% on-year growth, growing only 15% last year, stated TIN, adding that the polysilicon etch sector dropped 13% in 2005 after growing 75% in 2004.
Something does not make sense - they already projecting $1.57 billion for current Year Jun-06 |
