Semiconductor Industry Gets New Breakthroughs to Promote Localization Alternatives

The materials industry is at the upstream of the integrated circuit manufacturing process. The quality of materials directly affects the quality of integrated circuit products. The stable supply of materials is also bound to the production schedule of the company. The project of “Manufacturing equipment and process technology for large-size SiC materials and devices” in the advanced manufacturing technology field of the 863 Program recently passed the technical acceptance.

Benefiting from the dramatic increase in memory prices that drives the growth of the semiconductor market, Gartner predicts that the total revenue of the global semiconductor market in 2017 will reach US$411.1 billion, an increase of 19.7% from 2016. This is the strongest growth since 2010 after recovering from the financial crisis and global semiconductor revenue increased by 31.8%.

Gartner said it is optimistic that the market will continue to grow next year. Gartner predicts that the semiconductor market is expected to grow by 4% in 2018 to reach the size of $427.4 billion and continue to record highs. With the global favorable trend, the domestic semiconductor industry has grown rapidly, driving the rapid release of demand for semiconductor materials.

Since the beginning of this year, as wafer foundry TSMC has mass-produced a 10-nanometer production process, it will also step into the 7-nanometer process in the first half of next year, and Intel will begin mass production of 10-nanometer process before the end of this year. Samsung will also enter 8-nanometer LPP next year. In the process, fabs are continuously expanding their demand for equipment.

Industry sources said that since the beginning of this year, semiconductor equipment spending has been maintained at high-grade water levels, bringing the equipment concept stocks to a record high. However, the vast majority of domestic semiconductor materials still rely on imports, and local semiconductor material manufacturers can only meet about 20% of the demand, and most of them are medium-to-low-end materials.

It should be noted that the material industry is at the upstream of the integrated circuit manufacturing process. The quality of materials directly affects the quality of integrated circuit products. The stable supply of materials also binds the production schedule of enterprises and even has a decisive influence on the market price trend of integrated circuit products.

However, in recent years, China has made new breakthroughs in manufacturing equipment for semiconductor manufacturing materials. Relevant information indicates that the subject of "Manufacturing Equipment and Process Technology for Large-size SiC Materials and Devices" in the advanced manufacturing technology field of the 863 Program passed the technical acceptance.

Under the support of the National 863 Program, Xinjiang Tianke Heda Blu-ray Semiconductor Co., Ltd. took the lead, and the R&D team jointly participated by the Institute of Physics, the Institute of Semiconductors, Zhejiang University and other units of the Chinese Academy of Sciences successfully developed the requirements for the manufacture of high-voltage SiC power electronic devices. The key equipment of the 4-6 inch SiC single crystal growth furnace has formed the key equipment system of the 4-6 inch SiC single crystal growth furnace with independent intellectual property rights in China.

Developed a 4-6 inch general-purpose SiC single crystal furnace to achieve a "zero micropipe" (micropipe density <1 pcs/cm2) 4-inch SiC single crystal substrate and a low defect density 6 inch SiC single crystal substrate The preparation technology, mastered the related epitaxial process technology, grew 12μm, 17μm, 35μm, 100μm and other different thickness SiC epitaxial wafers, and prepared 1200V, 1700V, 3300V, 8000V silicon carbide diode products. Currently it has been used in batches in the market.

As China’s semiconductor industry-related technologies continue to make new progress, Ren Zhenchuan, director of the information exchange department of the China Semiconductor Industry Association, believes that China's integrated circuit industry is expected to maintain an average annual growth of 20% in the next three to five years, and there will be huge demand for semiconductor materials in the future. The domestic semiconductor material market has great potential. In the next few years, China's semiconductor material industry will usher in a new round of development opportunities, and the industry's self-sufficiency rate is expected to gradually increase. The localization substitution prospect is worth looking forward to.

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