Etch companies
10 companies in the Etch part of the semiconductor & AI value chain.
Companies
- Applied Materials — Broadest wafer fab equipment maker, leading in deposition and implant.
- Lam Research — Etch leader, critical to 3D NAND and advanced logic patterning.
- Tokyo Electron — Japan's biggest fab equipment maker; near-monopoly in coater/developers.
- Hitachi High-Tech — Hitachi subsidiary strong in conductor etch and CD-SEM metrology.
- SEMES — Samsung's in-house equipment arm; etch, cleaning, and packaging tools.
- NAURA Technology — China's largest domestic fab equipment maker across etch and deposition.
- AMEC (Advanced Micro-Fabrication) — Chinese plasma etch maker qualified at advanced foundries.
- PSK Inc — Korean dry-strip and etch equipment maker.
- Oxford Instruments — Plasma etch and deposition tools for compound semis and research.
- Plasma-Therm — Plasma etch and deposition systems for specialty and compound-semi devices.