Wafer fabrication equipment

Wafer fabrication equipment is equipment that is used in the process of semiconductor fabrication to process raw semiconductor wafers into finished chips, such as integrated circuits.^[1]

Wafer fabrication equipment is meant to be installed in cleanrooms.

Types

• Stepper
• Burn-in oven

Market

Referred to respectively as the wafer fab equipment ^[2] or wafer front end ^[3] (equipment) market, both using the acronym WFE, the market is that of the manufacturers of the machines which in turn manufacture semiconductors. The apexresearch link in 2020 identified Applied Materials, ASML, KLA-Tencor, Lam Research, TEL and Dainippon Screen Manufacturing as market participants^[2] while the 2019 electronicsweekly.com report, citing The Information Network's president Robert Castellano, focused on the respective market shares commanded by the two leaders, Applied Materials and ASML.^[3]

See also

• LCD manufacturing
• FOUP