Thursday, April 7, 2005
Sales of chip-manufacturing equipment reached $37.9 billion last year, a 64 percent increase from 2003, a market research firm said.
Applied Materials, the leading vendor, posted a 96.6 percent increase in sales, which boosted its market share in 2004 to 16.5 percent from 14 percent in 2003. The company reported $6.3 billion in revenues.
Canon, the No. 8 vendor, had the largest growth rate of 121.5 percent to $1.2 billion from $531 million the previous year. No. 4 Advntest posted an increase of 105.5 percent to $2.2 billion from $1.1 billion. Both companies increased their rankings from last year, when Canon was 13, and Advantest was fifth.
All of the top 10 vendors posted at least double-digit growth.
"The positive outcome for the industry in 2004 was the result of tight supply and demand fundamentals," Gartner analyst said in a statement. "The industry was severely underinvested heading into 2004, and the need for new capacity became urgent."
By: DocMemory
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