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Industry sector making wafer fabrication equipment—lithography, deposition, etch, and metrology tools—used to manufacture semiconductor chips.
The toolmaker will spend more than $3 billion over five years to push experiment capacity past 1.5 million runs a year. Its named customers are the three largest memory makers.
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Modi said India has moved past policy and plant construction into commercial chip production. The fresh investment announced at Semicon India 2026 came from two equipment suppliers, Applied Materials and Lam Research.
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The Dutch company stamps out waveguides for smart glasses and now wants to supply data center optics, a market where it has not installed a machine. Its backers include 3M Ventures and the European Investment Bank.
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Tokyo Electron Korea will test the tools it sells SK hynix in its own matching clean room a kilometre from the customer's Yongin site, on a completion date the customer has already moved once. Kolon Global is the builder.
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Logic vendors have made copper-to-copper bonding routine. Memory has not, because HBM has to place pre-tested dies one at a time. A relaxed stack-height rule let HBM4 skip the switch entirely.
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Copper-to-copper slips to HBM5 at the earliest, so HBM4E capacity has to come out of die thickness inside a 775-micron package. iHBM heat blocks cannot be retrofitted to parts already in design.
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The company promises about 80 percent gross and 75 percent operating margins through fiscal 2030 plus all excess cash back. Contracted volume, not scarcity talk, is the mechanism.
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