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| Semi Equipment Spend to increase by 76% over '09 |
| Wednesday, 10 March 2010 04:28 |
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After significant declines in '09, Gartner believes all segments of the semiconductor capital equipment market will show strong double-digit growth. "Spending by the memory and foundry markets, along with the advancement to new technology nodes will drive the semiconductor equipment segment in the first half of 2010. Quarterly growth will see a slight slowdown in the second half before capacity additions start ramping up the equipment industry again going into 2011,” according to Gartner research VP Jim Walker, in a statement. For the worldwide ATE market segment, Gartner believes this year will mark the first positive growth year since 2006. After bottoming out in Q1 2009, the ATE market has realized substantial quarterly gains and is expected to grow by more than 70% this year, the market research company said. Growth is expected to continue during the next several quarters as device demand improves, and Gartner's 2010 growth expectations are driven heavily by the expected transition to DDR3 memory devices. "The semiconductor equipment industry will experience a very strong growth spurt in 2010, as we emerge from a very costly recession, and this growth is expected to continue throughout 2012. However, we expect this upturn to be one of the first in which the peak revenue in capital equipment does not surpass previous growth cycles, which may well help to mitigate the boom/bust scenario that we have seen in the past,” Walker concluded. Visit Gartner Research here. |
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