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I was in the Semi Manf Equipment biz for about 8 years. I spent the last 4 as VP of engineering for K&S - a semi packaging company. As psycho says, you want to do business with the suppliers of the Semi companies. The big ones are Applied Materials and KLA-Tencor. They are pretty hard to break into - but there are many mid-size and smaller ones. Look into SEMI - they are the equipment manufacturing organization. If you have questions, I can probably answer some.
I was in the Semi Manf Equipment biz for about 8 years. I spent the last 4 as VP of engineering for K&S - a semi packaging company. As psycho says, you want to do business with the suppliers of the Semi companies. The big ones are Applied Materials and KLA-Tencor. They are pretty hard to break into - but there are many mid-size and smaller ones. Look into SEMI - they are the equipment manufacturing organization. If you have questions, I can probably answer some.