Description
Based in the Netherlands, ASM International supplies semiconductor manufacturing equipment. ASM's front-end equipment, such as atomic layer deposition, or ALD, and epitaxial tools, are used in the preparation of silicon wafers and fabrication of semiconductor layers. The firm is the top supplier in the ALD equipment segment. ASM's 25%-owned subsidiary, ASM Pacific Technology, manufactures back-end tools used to assemble and package semiconductors into their final form.
