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Subscription Services Provide Increased Value to Chipmakers
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by Jeremy Read
September 16, 2022
For chipmakers, being early to market with industry-leading technology is extremely valuable. It can directly impact market share, revenue and gross margin. The faster chipmakers can reach high-volume manufacturing, the sooner and higher the return on their fab investment. Consider this: a leading-edge logic fab requires more than $20 billion of wafer fab equipment per 100,000 wafer starts of capacity, and a leading-edge memory fab needs a bit less than $10 billion of equipment for similar volumes. Given a five-year depreciation cycle, every day is worth $5 to $10 million in depreciation costs alone.
Within Applied Materials, the group tasked with helping our customers accelerate the ramp of new process nodes to high-volume manufacturing and then maximize wafer output while maintaining the highest possible yields and optimizing costs is our services organization – Applied Global Services (AGS). On Sept. 22, Applied will host a Master Class providing an in-depth look at our services business. Several colleagues will join me to discuss the many ways AGS delivers value to our customers over the full lifecycle of process nodes and equipment ownership, and share insights into the rapid and stable growth of the subscription portion of our services business. We will also show how our services business helps make Applied a more resilient company across business cycles.
As chipmakers race to optimize power, performance, area, cost and time to market (PPACt), they are increasingly engaging AGS to achieve better outcomes and returns on their equipment investments. One way they do this is through long-term subscription agreements where Applied has a broad array of service offerings to address virtually all our customers’ needs.
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