Mid-2014 semiconductor manufacturing equipment market update

Semiconductor chip manufacturing equipment market follows a pattern where the sales revenue severely fall in one year and picks slowly in next year and grows quite fast the following 2 years and the cycle repeats. In fact this cyclical behavior also matches to global semiconductor IC market pattern, but the curves are steeper in case of semiconductor equipment. Now in 2014, deep node investment by Intel, TSMC and Samsung resulting in lot of extremely-sophisticated yield enhancing equipment shopping. Not only IC manufacturing, display, solar and LED manufacturing is also helping in the growth of sales revenue of semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Below is the mid-year update on semiconductor equipment market and products: Gartner has reported the worldwide semiconductor capital equipment spending is projected to total $38.5 billion in 2014, an increase of 15 percent from 2013 spending of $33.5 billion. Gartner predicts growth will continue up to 2018 with slight dip in 2016. Gartner has forecasted worldwide semiconductor device revenue to reach $336 billion in 2014, a 6.7 percent increase from 2013, and up from the previous quarter's forecast of 5.4 percent growth. Memory (flash, DRAM, SRAM) and logic (processor, SoC, FPGA) ICs are major revenue generators. Semiconductor equipment market for memory growth is picking up better than logic IC manufacturing....