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(July 1, 2008) SANTA CLARA, CA &%151 VLSI Research, a public source for customer feedback on semiconductor equipment, recently announced the winners of the 2008 BEST Awards. Recognizing the top 10 equipment suppliers in three areas of semiconductor manufacturing — wafer processing and diagnistics; chip making; and test, handling and assembly equipment — the results are based on 4,565 surveys collected from chip makers that represent more than 95% of worldwide chip production.
In the test equipment, material handling, and assembly equipment category, Inovys Corp., SUSS MicroTec , and Orthodyne Electronics ranked highest, respectively. All three companies retained the top spot from 2007. Advantest Corp., a 20-year 10 BEST veteran, secured the number 2 spot in both test and handling equipment categories, while F&K Delvotec Bondtechnik GmbH took second in the assembly equipment category, as well as 5th in chip making. Third place for test equipment went to LTX Corp., while ACCRETECH-Tokyo Seimitsu swept third place in both material handling and assembly equipment. Each equipment supplier was rated in 13 categories encompassing equipment performance and customer service.
SUSS MicroTec also placed 5th in the wafer processing equipment category, and 8th in focused suppliers of chip making equipment, making it one of three suppliers to place in all three segments. ASM International moved up one from 7th to 6th place for large suppliers of wafer processing equipment, as well as ranking 5th in chip making and and 9th for assembly equipment. Tokyo Electron, placed 7th as a large supplier of chip making equipment, 5th in material handling, and 4th in wafer processing. Interestingly enough,Teradyne and its business unit, Nextest, both made the list seperately, as number 6 an 5 respectively under test equipment. Teradyne was also ranked 6 among large manufactures of chip making equipment.
Suppliers that serve both the front and back-end of the market that ranked in the wafer processing and process diagnostics equipment included EV Group, who moved up to 7th place from the #10 spot in 2007 small supplier wafer processing equipment list, marking the sixth consecutive year EVG has made the list. Asymtek placed 4th for assembly equipment, up from 8th in 2007 and 9th for chip making equipment, having not even ranked in 2007 in that segment. Click here for full coverage and analysis of the 2008 BEST Awards.
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