ASM International Reports Decent 1Q Results; Longer-Term Growth Will Be Difficult to Achieve
ASM International reported first-quarter results at the low end of its guidance. The 3D NAND segment represented the largest percentage of sales, consistent with the firm’s peers. However, we note logic led ASM’s order mix as the firm’s atomic layer deposition, or ALD, tools are more prominent at the 10-nanometer process node for Intel, TSMC, and Samsung than prior technologies. We foresee ASM benefiting from greater applications for ALD at the 7-nm and 5-nm processes, though Lam Research and Ap...ASM International is an equipment supplier mainly to the semiconductor manufacturing industry. Co. designs, manufactures and sells equipment and services to its customers for the production of semiconductor devices, or integrated circuits. Co.'s front-end segment manufactures and sells equipment used in wafer processing, encompassing the fabrication steps in which silicon wafers are layered with semiconductor devices. Co.'s back-end segment manufactures and sells equipment and materials used in assembly and packaging, encompassing the processes in which silicon wafers are separated into individual circuits and subsequently assembled, packaged and tested.
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