Applied Materials, Inc., Asml Holding, Hitachi High-Technologies – Prominent Market Participants In Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Market
The semiconductor manufacturing equipment market is highly competitive in nature with considerable number of players, having a high level of dominance over the overall revenue share. Most of the companies operating in the semiconductor manufacturing equipment market are present globally and have wide distribution and sales network through partnerships or authorized dealers.
The most prominent market players in semiconductor manufacturing equipment market are Advantest Corporation, Applied Materials, Inc., ASML Holding N.V., Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation, KLA Corporation, Lam Research Corporation, Rudolph Technologies, Inc., Screen Holdings Co., Ltd., Teradyne Inc., and Tokyo Electron Ltd. Including others for a considerable share of the market owing to their product offerings to the market.
Market leaders are involved in extensive research for the development of new products with advanced technology. For instance, in 2018, Applied Ventures, LLC, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc., announced a new co-investment initiative with Empire State Development (ESD), focusing on investing in promising Upstate New York startups for a wide range of emerging and established industries including artificial intelligence, semiconductors, advanced optics, life sciences, autonomous vehicles, clean energy and more. Subsequently, the introduction of such advanced innovation is expected to provide this market with lucrative growth opportunities.
Many well-known, as well as small local companies, are present in the market to provide diversified product to its customers. The larger firms are adopting the strategy of partnership, contractual alliances for the deployment of new technological solutions to enhance its product portfolio and expand its footprint in different geographies. Few on the important market initiative from the industry are mentioned below:
| Year | News | Country |
| 2019 | Rudolph Technologies unveiled rapid adoption of its Dragonfly G2 system for advanced packaging inspection from several companies. The new Dragonfly G2 platform delivers up to 150% improvement in productivity over legacy systems as well as exceeds competitive system throughputs. Owing top which, the company has received orders for 12 of its Dragonfly™ G2 system. | North America |
| 2018 | Applied Materials, Inc. unveiled its plans for the META Center, a major expansion of the company’s R&D capabilities focused at building new ways for Applied and its clients to drive innovation as classic Moore’s Law scaling becomes more challenging. | North America |
| 2018 | ASML and Imec Collaborated to advance high-volume production with current EUV lithography and develop future EUV systems. Together, they will accelerate the adoption of EUV lithography for high-volume production, including the current latest available equipment for EUV (0.33 Numerical Aperture, NA). Moreover, they will explore the potential of the next-generation high-NA EUV lithography to enable printing of even smaller nanoscale devices advancing semiconductor scaling towards the post 3 nanometer Logic node. | Europe |
| 2017 | Hitachi High-Technologies unveiled its strategic partnership agreement in Flutura Business Solutions Private Limited (Flutura). This strategic partnership agreement enabled to build an even stronger relationship between the two companies through strong business and technology collaboration. Together, the companies focus to offer solutions in the rapidly expanding IIoT market. | APAC |
