Future prospects of semiconductor:
The global semiconductor market is expected to continue to grow with the global scientific and technological progress and the industrial application of 5G technology, artificial intelligence, new energy vehicles and other technologies. At the same time, in recent years, the Chinese government has issued a series of policies to support the development of the semiconductor industry. The "Fourteenth Five Year Plan" also clearly identifies cultivating the integrated circuit industry system and vigorously promoting innovation and industrialization in emerging frontier fields such as advanced semiconductors as the focus of recent development. As a basic and key material for integrated circuits, silicon materials for semiconductor silicon chips and etching equipment belong to the field supported by national industrial policies, and the market scale is expected to continue to grow in the future.
Semiconductor development trend:
In terms of silicon materials for etching equipment, with the shrinking of the manufacturing process and the continuous improvement of the process, the downstream manufacturers of silicon components for etching equipment have continuously increased their requirements for the exponential parameters of silicon materials for etching equipment. The key performance indicators of silicon materials for etching equipment, such as size, dopant, resistivity, metal content, micro defects, will face higher downstream customer requirements. Among them, the larger the product diameter is, the higher the control technology requirements for the manufacturer are, the wider the product range that the manufacturer can cover, and the more downstream customers that can be developed and covered; The less impurities and micro defects in the product, the better performance of silicon materials for etching equipment, and the higher product quality of silicon components for downstream etching equipment.