ASM International NV ASMIY Stock Analysis

About ASM International NV

ASM International NV, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the research, development, manufacture, marketing, and servicing of equipment and materials used to produce semiconductor devices. The company operates through two segments, Front-end and Back-end. The Front-end segment manufactures and sells equipment used in wafer processing, encompassing the fabrication steps in which silicon wafers are layered with semiconductor devices in Europe, the United States, Japan, and Southeast Asia. The Back-end segment manufactures and sells equipment and materials that are used in the assembly and packaging, encompassing the processes in which silicon wafers are separated into individual circuits and subsequently assembled, packaged, and tested in Hong Kong, the People’s Republic of China, Singapore, Malaysia, and Germany. The company’s product platforms include Advance, a vertical furnace batch processing platform, which is used in various manufacturing steps; XP Platform, a single wafer product platform; XP8 Platform, which provides productivity with up to 8 chambers integrated on a single wafer platform; Epsilon that offers a range of epitaxy products and materials for various applications; and Polygon, a single wafer atomic layer deposition platform. It serves manufacturers of semiconductor devices and silicon wafers. The company has a strategic research and development partnership with the Interuniversity MicroElectronics Center. ASM International NV was formerly known as Advanced Semiconductor Materials International NV. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Almere, the Netherlands.