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Canon biggest loser in lithography sales for 2005 |
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Apr 04, 2006 at 08:40 AM |
 The latest independent sales figures for the largest lithography equipment companies in 2005 have been released by VLSI Research. Both Nikon and ASML saw sales grow over figures for 2004, while Canon the third largest lithography tool supplier saw sales decline 13.2 percent.
Nikon produced the biggest increase in sales, in percentage terms with growth of 10.8 percent over 2004 figures, reaching $1.34 billion US dollars in revenues that includes support services contracts as well as tool sales.
ASML produced growth of 2.7 percent in 2005 on revenues that included support service contracts to the tune of $2.78 billion US dollars, while Canon was able to generate $854 million US dollars in revenues.
VLSI Research attributed the success of both ASML and Nikon in achieving sales growth to the higher proportional spending of IC manufacturers upgrading to 193nm ArF systems as well as more spending allocated to lithography than other tool types in 2005.
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