The United States exhibition in Japan in the field of semiconductor equipment attention

The day before attended held in San Francisco on the "SEMICON West 2006" exhibition. From the scene where the exhibitors learned that the audience more than last year, to restore vitality. However, in fact, more people think that the atmosphere is more intense than the business atmosphere, the leader of the United States large equipment manufacturers.

For the vast majority of semiconductor equipment manufacturers, equipment manufacturers as a large American officials said that, "the 70% of sales come from Asia, Asia has become the center of the semiconductor manufacturing equipment market. "We hope that Asian technicians will be able to participate in" (SEMICON), a large equipment manufacturer in the United States, but they are not going to the United states. If Japan, these technicians may come. This is because geographically, Japan is closer to the United States, and Japan has excellent accessories and materials manufacturers". In Japan, not only to find such accessories manufacturers, and whether it is manufacturing equipment manufacturers, or their customers will find the most cutting-edge technology. As the focus of such information, the industry is re examining japan.

From individual companies, bent to enter the Japanese market is the exposure device manufacturers ASML. The company's market share in North America in 2005 was 62%, Europe was $48%. In addition to Japan, Asia is 77%, while Japan is only about 8%. Because Nikon and Canon and other Japanese manufacturers are still strong. In the SECON West venue, ASML launched a large-scale promotional activities, free of charge to imitate the liquid immersion exposure technology to display NATURAL IMMERSION WATER words of the beverage bottle. The company may launch an offensive against the Japanese market in its global strategy.

In December this year, held in Japan, "SEMICON Japan" is about to usher in the 30 anniversary. From the industry's growing concern about the situation in Japan, the exhibition is expected to become a grand event.