Would be grateful if you could give me the market size, major players
in the Advanced Process Control (APC) market in the U.S., Europe, and
Asia, and their market share. Also, it would be helpful if you had any
information on market trends (acquisitions, consolidation, etc.) in
this area.

Advanced Process Control is used in the semiconductor manufacturing
process.

Looking forward to your response.

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Request for Question Clarification by morris-ga on 30 May 2002 09:36 PDT

mdefig-ga, 
I'd be happy to spend some time trying to answer part of your
question, but it's too general as stated. You may notice that
marketing questions covering 95% of the industrial world tend to go
unanswered. I identify four different questions here, one or more of
which may be impossible to answer using public domain info:

1) APC market size 
2) APC players 
3) APC share per player 
3) APC market trends 

If you break up your question, you'll greatly increase the chance of
getting at least part of it answered. Researchers may be leary of
taking on a question when part of the answer may be unavailable.

Thanks

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It has everything you wanted, and more. 

I didn't add it as an answer because this is a book name and not an
answer from a book. However, I would appreciate it if you accepted
that as an answer.