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Top Ten Equipment Suppliers 2002
VLSI Research released its top ten semiconductor equipment suppliers for 2002 based on revenues. US and Japanese companies dominated the listing with only one European company - lithography system producer ASML at No.3 with $1.875bn in revenues.
VLSI Research released its top ten semiconductor equipment suppliers for 2002 based on revenues. US and Japanese companies dominated the listing with only one European company - lithography system producer ASML at No.3 with $1.875bn in revenues.
. There were no surprises at Nos.1 and 2 - Applied Materials with $5.080bn and Tokyo Electron (TEL) with $2.646bn. KLA-Tencor - the US supplier of inspection and metrology equipment - came in at No.4 with $1.419bn.
The two Japanese lithography companies Nikon and Canon made No.5 and No.6, respectively with $1.091bn and $0.848bn.
The remaining companies in the top ten were: Novellus ($0.837bn), Dainippon Screen ($0.737bn), Lam Research ($0.726bn) and Hitachi High-Technologies ($0.631bn).
