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Bhavin Shah<br />

(852) 2800-8538<br />

bhavin.a.shah@jpmorgan.com<br />

Asia Pacific Equity Research<br />

20 April 2009<br />

Semiconductor manufacturing technology<br />

trends and capital equipment<br />

What’s new?<br />

The semiconductor manufacturing process transition to sub-90nm is facing many<br />

challenges and creating opportunities for capital equipment vendors. 300mm has now<br />

65% penetration and companies are looking for transition to 450mm. Intel, Samsung<br />

and TSMC reached a collaboration agreement to target the transition to 450mm from<br />

300mm starting in 2012. But equipment vendors—AMAT, KLA, NVLS, and<br />

ASML—are not interested in migrating to 450mm as the ROI for capital equipment<br />

companies is apparently much lower.<br />

Automated test equipment (ATE) is discussed in detail; which is used as the master<br />

electrical circuit to perform a comprehensive test on each semiconductor device.<br />

ATE receives a significant portion of the capital expenditure for back-end equipment,<br />

with approximately 40% of back-end capital expenditure. We provide a market<br />

overview by individual application segments. We discuss trends in test methodology<br />

including the impact of advanced packaging. Lithography and process control remain<br />

the key winners in all wafer fab equipment (WFE) spending.<br />

In the following sections we include a brief discussion on the semiconductor industry<br />

value chain and then provide a detailed discussion on the capital equipment industry.<br />

Semiconductor manufacturing industry<br />

The growth of the semiconductor industry has been rapid. From 1954 to 2006, the<br />

annual industry revenue grew to US$247.7 billion; the total semiconductor industry<br />

revenue touched US$256 billion in 2007, setting a new all-time industry high. Endmarket<br />

slowdown has severely impacted the booming growth of this industry and<br />

revenue growth has been slightly negative in 2008.<br />

Figure 183: Annual semiconductor industry revenue<br />

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