Source: /cirosantilli/semiconductor-equipment-maker

= Semiconductor equipment maker

= Company that makes semiconductor production equipment
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As mentioned at https://youtu.be/16BzIG0lrEs?t=397 from <video Applied Materials by Asianometry (2021)>, originally the companies <fabs> would make their own equipment. But eventually things got so complicated that it became worth it for separate companies to focus on equipment, which then then sell to the fabs.
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