Japan’s chipmaking equipment vendors fall in 2013 ranking
In the top ten suppliers ranked by Gartner only ASML Holding NV (Veldhoven, The Netherlands) and Lam Research Corp. (Fremont, Calif.) were able to increase 2013 sales compared with the 2012. All the other companies saw sales decline. And the largest declines were at Japanese companies.
Tokyo Electron saw sales decline by 27.5 percent and it fell from third to fourth position. Tokyo is in the process of being acquired by the leading vendor, Applied Materials. Eighth position Advantest lost 40.6 percent of its sales compared with 2012 and lithography equipment vendor Nikon dropped 36.8 percent in sales and fell from ninth to tenth spot in Gartner’s ranking.
Top 10 semiconductor manufacturing equipment vendors ranked by 2013 revenue (Millions of U.S. Dollars). Source: Gartner. To see larger chart click here.
In general, spending on wafer-level manufacturing equipment performed above the market average with relative strength in lithography while back-end manufacturing equipment fared worse than average.
The market also saw consolidation in 2013 with the top ten vendors responsible for 70 percent of global sales, compared with 68 percent in 2012.
Spending was selective and focused on upgrades and technology buys rather than the addition of volume capacity. Logic focused on the few fabs preparing for 20nm/14nm production. In the back-end all the major equipment categories saw significant declines with 4Q13 particularly slow as semiconductor assembly and test services (SATS) vendors pushed out orders due to market uncertainty.
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