Copper processing equipment to grow 63%
Staff -- Purchasing, 9/16/2004 2:00:00 AM
The market for front-end equipment for copper processing of integrated circuit interconnects will grow about 63% to $1.5 billion in 2004.
The market for copper processing tools for IC production will grow another 30% in 2005, according to The Information Network, a market researcher.
"Copper is the technology of choice for logic IC manufacturers, but we will have to wait until the 65nm node in 2006 before DRAM suppliers embrace copper," says Dr. Robert Castellano, president of The Information Network.
Copper tools represented 6.2% of the total front-end equipment revenues in 2003, and will grow to 7.6% in 2004 and further to 9.0% in 2005.
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