Applied Materials Announces a Strategic Investment in BE Semiconductor Industries Purchased 9 percent of outstanding shares to build upon four years of successful collaboration on hybrid bonding technology for advanced packaging SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Applied Materials, Inc. today announced it has purchased 9 percent of the outstanding shares of the common stock of BE Semiconductor Industries N.V. (Besi), a leading manufacturer of assembly equipment for the semiconductor industry. Applied and Besi have been successfully collaborating since 2020, and rec...
BESI will reports its 1Q25 results on Wednesday, 23 April. After the recent tariff turmoil, we again push-out our cyclical recovery. We now expect a relatively moderate cyclical recovery in 2026. We continue to be very positive on the long-term hybrid bonding opportunity. We believe that eventually we will see an aggressive adoption in chiplet architecture which will drive a jump in hybrid bonding demand. Given the industry-wide push for chiplets and BESI's leading HB portfolio, we see a very hi...
In this sector note we take a close look at the semiconductor universe and go over end market dynamics, semi manufacturing trends and the impact on the WFE market. We provide detailed overviews of historical market trends and short term adjustments. We show that lower demand from China is a real risk for the WFE market, as we don't expect the non-China WFE revenues will increase with 28% y/y in 2025, which CSS implies. Our analysis shows a clear 10% risk on WFE estimates based on fundamentals, e...
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