KLA differs significantly from leading chip equipment manufacturers Applied Materials and Lam Research. KLA’s business is not primarily focused on deposition, etching, lithography, or large-scale wafer fabrication equipment. KLA’s core strength lies in semiconductor process control.
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Top five semiconductor equipment providers
In Q1 2024, the revenue of top five semiconductor equipment providers decreased by 9% year-on-year
How does Applied Materials, lord of semiconductor equipment, make money?
Applied Materials’ main products are wafer manufacturing related products, such as atomic layer deposition, physical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, electroplating, etching, ion implantation, rapid heat treatment, chemical mechanical polishing, metrology and silicon wafer inspection, etc., and include supporting software, Quality inspection services are provided to operating customers, such as various semiconductor manufacturers in wafer fabs and screen factories.
The lucrative semiconductor supply chain
The lucrative semiconductor supply chain