Equipment maker All Ring Tech has estimated that revenues for June 2010 hit a record for the second consecutive month, amid strong orders particularly from LED customers.
Japan's semiconductor production equipment manufacturers posted a book-to-bill ratio of 1.13 in May 2010, up from 1.07 in April, according to the Semiconductor Equipment Association...
Taiwan-based Wah Lee Industrial, which mainly distributes materials for semiconductors and flat-panel displays (FPDs), has announced plans to open a new branch office in South Korea...
Lithography equipment supplier ASML has rehired 700 employees that were previously laid off, as well as recruiting several hundreds of new staff, to meet a big surge in demand for...
Worldwide semiconductor capital equipment spending is projected to surpass US$35.4 billion in 2010, a 113.2% increase from 2009 spending of US$16.6 billion, according to Gartner....
SEMI has reported that worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings reached US$7.46 billion in the first quarter of 2010. The billings figure is 32% higher than that in...
Taiwan-based Laser Tek, which produces SMD (surface-mount-device) packaging materials and semiconductor equipment, is expected to see consolidated revenues for May 2010 exceed its...
Japan-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted a book-to-bill ratio of 1.07 in April 2010, compared to 1.17 in the prior month, according to the Semiconductor Equipment...
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$1.44 billion in orders in April (three-month average basis), up 8.1% from the revised level of US$1.33 billion...
Mirle Automation has reported pre-tax profits of NT$65 million (US$2 million) for April 2010, compared to NT$16 million posted a year ago. The automation equipment maker attributed...
The film deposition equipment market for chip manufacturing was down 38% in 2009, but on a sector-by-sector basis, sales dropped between 8.7% to 71.7%, according to The Information...
Taiwan-based All Ring Tech has begun shipping passive component manufacturing equipment in small volumes to a Japan-based vendor, according to company chairman Larry Lu.
Due to delivery delays of immersion scanners, DRAM maker Rexchip Electronics will postpone transferring its capacity of 80,000 12-inch wafers to a 45nm process, according to the company...
Taiwan-based Gudeng Precision Industrial, a semiconductor front-end equipment manufacturer mainly specializing in mask solution products, has announced plans to apply for listing...
The market for metrology/inspection equipment for 3D through silicon via (TSV) semiconductor packaging looms large, according to The Information Network. The desire for smaller, lighter...
