We estimate that the water fab equipment market has a five-year compound annual growth rate, or CAGR, of approximately 12% from 2015 to 2020, growing from $32.4 billion in 2015 to an estimated $58.3 billion in 2020, with year-over-year growth of approximately 15% to 17% in 2020. We estimate that the wafer fab equipment market has increased as a percentage of global semiconductor revenue over time and will represent approximately 13% of estimated global semiconductor revenue in 2020, representing an estimated increase of approximately 33% from 2015.
According to Gartner’s Market Share: Semiconductor Wafer Fab Equipment, Worldwide, 2019 (April 2020) and Market Share: Semiconductor Wafer Fab Equipment, Worldwide, 2016 (March 2017), Gartner estimates that the combined global markets for dry etch and chemical vapor deposition were $11 billion in 2015 and $18 billion in 2019, respectively. We estimate that these combined markets will expand to $22 billion in 2020, representing a CAGR of 15% from 2015 to 2020. CAGR calculations were performed by Ichor.
Lam Research and Applied Materials were Ichor’s largest customers by sales, respectively, as of September 25, 2020. According to Gartner’s Market Share: Semiconductor Wafer Fab Equipment, Worldwide, 2019 (April 2020), Lam Research and Applied Materials have a 39% and 42% share globally in the following served markets, respectively, as of 2019. Lam Research’s served markets include Dry Etch, Single Wafer Spray Processors, Bevel Edge Removal (Dry), Dry Strip, Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition (Plasma CVD), Nontube Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition (Nontube LPCVD), Atomic Layer Deposition Platforms and Electrochemical Deposition (ECD). Applied Material’s served markets include Conductor Etch, Plasma CVD, Epitaxy, Chemical-Mechanical Planarization (CMP) and Post-Clean CMP, Doping Equipment, Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP), Gate Stack Tools, Sputtering, Nontube LPCVD, Atomic Layer Deposition Platforms, ECD, Patterned Wafer Inspection, Defect Review and Classification, Critical-Dimension Scanning Electron Microscope (CD-SEM), Mask Inspection and Review, Other Fab Automation and Mask-Making Lithography.
We estimate that our addressable market is currently approximately $4.0 billion, and that approximately 65% of the water fab equipment market requires fluid delivery subsystems or components. This market includes a $1.5 billion gas delivery market, a $0.7 billion chemical delivery market, a $1.0 billion sub-assembly market, a $0.6 billion precision machining market, and a market opportunity in other machined components of $0.2 billion. We believe there are multiple growth opportunities to increase and further penetrate our markets. For example, we estimate our share of the gas delivery market to be just over 30%, and we have less than 10% market share in the chemical delivery market, less than 25% market share in the sub-assembly market, and less than 5% in each of the precision machining and other components markets. We believe that execution of our strategic initiatives has helped to increase our market share in certain markets. We estimate that our market share gains contributed approximately $70 million of incremental revenue in 2019, and we believe that this incremental revenue has continued to grow with the overall wafer fab equipment market in 2020. Based on our estimates regarding the year-over-year growth of the wafer fab equipment market in 2020, we estimate that revenue from our 2019 market share gains will be approximately $115 million in 2020.
We believe certain technology transitions are driving growth in our primary markets. For example, as discussed above, we estimate that the wafer fab equipment market has increased as a percentage of global semiconductor revenue over time. In addition, we believe we may benefit from additional tailwinds resulting from general increases in etching and deposition intensity and in demand for extreme ultraviolet lithography.
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