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ASML claims 61 percent lithography market share in 2006 |
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Jan 17, 2007 at 02:01 PM |
 ASML posted record revenues for 2006 as well as record sequential revenues for the last three quarters of 2006 as revealed in their full-year financial results, announced today. 2006 net sales came in at €3.597 billion, up 42 percent compared with €2.529 billion in 2005. Q4 2006 net sales reached €1.068 billion, up 11 percent compared with Q3 2006 net sales of €958 million. In Q4 2006, ASML shipped 72 lithography systems (70 percent ArF: per value), including 64 new and 8 refurbished.
ASML increased market share by revenue to 61 percent in 2006 from 57 percent in 2005, according to the company, citing data reported by SEMI. The market share gains were attributed to continued adoption of 193nm ArF tools - both ‘wet' and ‘dry' technology - as well as being able to attract 7 new customers during the year that came from Japan, Taiwan and North America.
The company stated that it had an installed base of 36 193nm ArF immersion tools at year end, with a further 20 tools in order backlog. Approximately 65 percent of the current backlog was for ArF tools, 26 percent being immersion and 39 percent being dry tools.
ASML said that it expects the first-half of 2007 to be noted for shipments of TWINSCAN XT:1700i (immersion) tools for production applications of NAND Flash memory devices at the 56nm through 50nm nodes. In the second-half of 2007, ASML expects a transition to shipments of TWINSCAN XT:1900i systems for a broader group of applications that include 40nm NAND Flash production but also for logic R&D at IDMs and foundries. Shipments of the XT:1900i are expected to over 10 different customers in that period, the company noted.
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