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On November 17, Applied Material announced the formal acquisition of Semitool, which will therefore enter the rapidly growing field of advanced packaging equipment. On the same day, Applied announced that it will work with Merck KGaA and Braunschweig University to obtain the German government's OLED R&D incentive fund to jointly develop low-cost OLED manufacturing processes. After successfully entering the TFT and solar industry, Applied Materials once again blew the horn of the "big semiconductor" industry.
Applied Materials will pay about $364 million to acquire Semitool shares for $11 per share. Semitool is a supplier of electroplating and surface cleaning equipment to customers around the world in packaging and chip manufacturing plants.
Dean Freeman, equipment analyst at Gartner, believes that the acquisition is a new beginning for copper deposition equipment because the application materials were shut down two years ago by the copper deposition equipment department that had worked hard to develop. Semitool's market share in global copper double Damascus deposition equipment in 2008 was 24%, compared to $30 million, compared to 73.6% for Novellus, which was $92.4 million. Therefore, the M&A action of the applied materials is very obvious for Novo.
In addition, in the bumping, gold and other metal plating equipment used in flip-chip packages, Semitool dominated 86% in 2008, at $63 million, while another Nexx (Billerica Mass) was 14%. In addition to Gartner's 3D interconnects using TSV technology in the nascent field, Semitol and Japan's Ebara (Haneda, Japan) each accounted for 34% of the market.
Merck KGaA is a supplier of OLED materials and the German government's OLED project totals 7.49 million euros. It is optimistic about the development of solid-state light sources in the future energy-saving society, Applied Materials is involved in this three-year LILi (Light InLine) program.
In the same year, Applied Materials successfully merged into the largest crystalline silicon market in the photovoltaic field by acquiring and merging Applied Films, HCT and Baccini. The way of mergers and acquisitions has won valuable for the company. time. Today, Applied has become the world's leader in photovoltaic equipment.
In the FPD field, Applied is equally exciting. Through mergers and acquisitions, today Applied has become the world's largest supplier of FPD equipment, leading the field in PECVD, testing and other fields.
"When the boss" can make a profit, this seems to be the unspoken rules of the former semiconductor equipment industry. Under the impact of the financial crisis, a group of equipment companies can not withstand the cold winter, and the end of life, at this time the acquisition is a good opportunity for Applied to enter the new field.
At the same time, this rule seems to be brought to the "big semiconductor" field due to the arrival of Applied, and the integration of equipment materials companies may continue to be staged in the fields of packaging, LED, OLED, etc. in the near future. 