Semiconductor industry and market

Which set correctly names major semiconductor manufacturing equipment makers?

  1. AApplied Materials, ASML, Lam Research, Tokyo Electron and KLA
  2. BTSMC, Samsung, Intel, SMIC and GlobalFoundries
  3. CQualcomm, NVIDIA, AMD, MediaTek and Broadcom
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Answer: A. Applied Materials, ASML, Lam Research, Tokyo Electron and KLA

The top of the equipment market is held by Applied Materials (US) in deposition and more, ASML (Netherlands) in lithography, Lam Research (US) in etching, Tokyo Electron (Japan) in coater/developers, deposition, cleaning and more, and KLA (US) in inspection and metrology. Japan also has many other strong equipment makers.

  • A. Correct. These are the major equipment makers.
  • B. These are chip manufacturers (foundries and IDMs).
  • C. These are fabless companies.
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