Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/f15d91/the_world_market_f)
has announced the addition of the "The
World Market for Failure Analysis Equipment" report to their
offering.
“The
World Market for Failure Analysis Equipment”
The world market for failure analysis equipment was worth US$3143
million in 2009, rising to US$4996 million by 2015. This market covers
the following equipment types: Focused Ion Beam, Broad Ion Milling,
Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry, Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy,
Reactive Ion Etching, Ion Milling, Chemical Mechanical Planarization and
related equipment markets for Electron and Scanning Probe Microscopy.
The failure analysis equipment market is dominated by large
multinational companies offering a wide range of products across a
variety of platforms. Main players are FEI Company, Hitachi, JEOL and
Carl Zeiss SMT. These companies have been selling capital equipment to
the semiconductors and data storage market for a number of years and
make a significant investment in sales and marketing; they typically
have a broad range of products and an established global network of
sales channels for such products.
As a result of the global economic downturn, constrained financing
environment and a slowdown in capital spending on equipment is impacting
most end markets and customers. While it is currently unclear how long
this overall negative business climate will continue, most companies are
seeking to position themselves to capitalize on long-term technology
growth opportunities in semiconductors, bio-medicine and life sciences,
LED and solar and nanotechnology.
A particular strategic focus of larger companies especially has been to
allocate additional research and development spending towards end
markets they believe offer significant growth opportunities, such as the
LED and solar markets, as contrasted with traditional, maturing markets
such as data storage and semiconductor. Markets such as forensics,
petrochemicals and mining have also been identified as potentially
significant future markets.