Semiconductor equipment sales leaders by year
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This article lists the top 15 largest equipment semiconductor companies by sales leaders since 2006.
An IC equipment supplier's revenue is classified as sales of systems used to manufacture semiconductors, thin-film heads, MEMs, integrated circuits, as well as service, support, and retrofitted systems. (Flat panel displays are not included)

Ranking for year 2009

Source : VLSI Research Inc supplied rankings for 2009
Rank Company Country of origin Revenue
2009 2008 (million $USD
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1 1 Applied Materials
Applied Materials
Applied Materials, Inc. is a capital equipment producer serving the semiconductor, TFT LCD display, Glass, WEB and solar manufacturing industries....

 USA
United States
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3,597
2 3 Tokyo Electron
Tokyo Electron
, or TEL, is a supplier of semiconductor fabrication equipment and flat panel display production equipment. It is headquartered in Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan....

 Japan
Japan
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2,324
3 2 ASML
ASML Holding
ASML is a Dutch company and the largest supplier in the world of photolithography systems for the semiconductor industry. The company manufactures machines for the production of integrated circuits , such as RAM and flash memory chips and CPUs.-Products:...

 Netherlands
Netherlands
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2,268
4 6 Nikon
Nikon
, also known as just Nikon, is a multinational corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in optics and imaging. Its products include cameras, binoculars, microscopes, measurement instruments, and the steppers used in the photolithography steps of semiconductor fabrication, of which...

 Japan
Japan
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1,547
5 4 KLA Tencor
KLA Tencor
KLA-Tencor Corporation is a supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related microelectronics industries. These technologies serve the semiconductor, data storage, LED, photovoltaic, and other related nanoelectronics industries...

 USA
United States
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1323
6 5 Lam Research
Lam Research
Lam Research Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, marketing, and service of semiconductor processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. Its products include etch systems, including dielectric etch products, conductor etch products, and resist strip products, as...

 USA
United States
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1,198
7 9 Dainippon Screen  Japan
Japan
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805
8 11 ASM International
ASM International (company)
ASM International is a Dutch company active in the semiconductor industry.The company was founded by Arthur del Prado in 1968. ASMi has been the co-founder with Philips Electronics of the company ASML. The shares of the company are listed on the Nasdaq and Euronext Amsterdam. Since 2008 the son of...

 Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

690
9 10 Novellus Systems
Novellus Systems
Novellus Systems Inc. develops, manufactures, sells, and services semiconductor equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. It is a leading supplier of chemical vapor deposition , plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition , physical vapor deposition , electrochemical deposition ,...

 USA
United States
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582
10 12 Teradyne
Teradyne
Teradyne , a US company, is a supplier of automatic test equipment . The company's divisions Semiconductor Test and Systems Test Group, are organized by the products they develop and deliver.-History:...

 USA
United States
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552
11 8 Hitachi High-Tech  Japan
Japan
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474
12 13 Advantest
Advantest
is a leading manufacturer of automatic test equipment for the semiconductor industry, and a manufacturer of measuring instruments used in the design, production and maintenance of electronic systems including fiber optic and wireless communications equipment and digital consumer products...

 Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

416
13 18 Aixtron
Aixtron
Aixtron SE is a German-based technology company which specialises in manufacturing metalorganic chemical vapour deposition equipment for clients in the semiconductor industry...

 Germany
Germany
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412
14 14 Varian Semiconductor
Varian Semiconductor
Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. is a supplier of ion implantation equipment used in the fabrication of semiconductor chips. Varian Semiconductor was founded in 1971 as Extrion Corporation in Peabody, Massachusetts. Extrion later moved to nearby Gloucester and was bought by Varian...

 USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

396
15 15 Verigy
Verigy
Verigy Ltd is an Advantest Group company in the semiconductor automatic test equipment business. It was spun off from Agilent Technologies in 2006...

 Singapore
Singapore
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333

Ranking for year 2008

Source : VLSI Research Inc supplied rankings for 2008

Ranking for year 2007

Source : VLSI Research Inc supplied rankings for 2007

Ranking for year 2006

Source : VLSI Research Inc supplied rankings for 2006

  • (1) Agilent Technologies
    Agilent Technologies
    Agilent Technologies , or Agilent, is a company that designs and manufactures electronic and bio-analytical measurement instruments and equipment for measurement and evaluation...

     spun off their semiconductor test business to Verigy
    Verigy
    Verigy Ltd is an Advantest Group company in the semiconductor automatic test equipment business. It was spun off from Agilent Technologies in 2006...

     in June 2006.
    Verigy’s total revenues for 2006 also included part of semiconductor testing from Agilent Technologies for the first half of 2006.

See also

  • Semiconductor sales leaders by year
  • Semiconductor foundry sales leaders by year
  • Semiconductor fabless sales leaders by year
  • Semiconductor device fabrication
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