Acquisition expands Applied's capability to address emerging wafer packaging market
This acquisition expands Applied's capability to address emerging opportunities in the high-growth wafer packaging market and provides complementary systems and technology for advanced semiconductor manufacturing.
The worldwide semiconductor equipment market grew 143% in 2010 to nearly $41 bn as the market recovered from the industry slowdown of the previous two years, according to final results from Gartner Inc. All major market segments grew significantly in 2010 with automatic test equipment sales up by 149%, wafer fab equipment sales up by 145% and sales of packaging assembly equipment up by 127%..