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To: Donald Wennerstrom who wrote (9874)	5/20/2004 8:02:57 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 25522

Applied dominates sluggish CMP equipment market Silicon Strategies 05/19/2004, 9:50 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Applied Materials Inc. dominated the chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) equipment market in 2003, but the overall CMP business fell for the third consecutive year, according to VLSI Research Inc. Industry revenues for CMP equipment hit $707 million in 2003, a 9 percent dropped from 2002, according to VLSI Research Inc., a market research house in Santa Clara. Applied reported sales of just under $500 million, making it the number one CMP supplier for the sixth consecutive year. Applied's CMP share jumped from 60 percent in 2002, to 65 in 2003, according to the firm. Number two-ranked supplier Ebara Corp. of Japan held onto its 20 percent market share from 2002, while performing only slightly better than the market in 2003. With 5 percent share in 2003, Novellus Systems Inc. ranked third among CMP suppliers for the first time after closing its acquisition of Speedfam IPEC Inc. in late 2002.