India, Oct. 27 -- Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT), a provider of equipment, services, and software solutions to the semiconductor industry, Monday announced that it is increasing its investment in BE Semiconductor Industries N.V. or BESI, a manufacturer of assembly equipment for the semiconductor industry, to about 20 percent.
The financial details of the transaction have not been divulged.
The companies have a longstanding strategic collaboration and areas of collaboration include next-generation 3D IC scaling, logic and memory integration, scaling of thermo-compression bonding and new die-on-wafer, die-on-die and die-on-panel integration platforms.
"Applied Materials is adding to its investment in Besi as hybrid bonding technology and n...