PV industry: semiconductor, China supports new opportunities for industry

Shockley, invented the transistor in 1947, Bell Laboratories, 1958 Fairchild company RobertNoyce (Robert Noyce) and Texas Instruments JackKilby (Jack Kilby) were based on silicon and germanium-based integrated circuits in 1971, Intel launched the 1KBDRAM (dynamic random access memory), 1984 Japan introduced 1MBDRAM and 256KBSRAM (static random access memory), In integrated circuit technology and craft of every jump in the process, are inseparable from the semiconductor equipment and materials constantly.

Support is the cornerstone of integrated circuit and electronic industry

Semiconductor equipment and materials industry is collectively referred to as the integrated circuit support, integrated circuit industry based on this support, electronic terminal system based on the IC industry, therefore, as a support of semiconductor equipment and materials industry are the basis of electronic industry.

In a sense, integrated circuit manufacturing technologies mainly in the hands of equipment suppliers, and suppliers of materials, their IC manufacturing technology plays a key role in the development. If not state of the art equipment and materials, it is impossible to manufacture advanced integrated circuits.

From the perspective of IC design, EDA (electronic design automation) tools design and the technical support. If there is no EDA design tools, the circuit cannot impersonate, can't be designed integrated circuit, EDA is therefore the core of IC design, semiconductor equipment and materials is the core of integrated circuit manufacturing technologies and processes.

In addition, some international countries for key semiconductor devices export control against China, from which it is not difficult to see the importance of supporting industries in the integrated circuit industry.

PV industry supported rapid development for China's semiconductor industry brings new opportunities

After many years research and accumulation, semiconductor support industry development in China is good. Before semiconductor process by ion implantation, etching, diffusion furnace, rapid thermal processing equipment, washing machines, coating developer equipment, back-end processes using dicing machine, laminating machine, material equipment of single crystal growth furnace, grinding machines, polishing machines are developing very quickly. Some of these homemade devices have become more mature, and 200mm, 300mm part of the equipment has been used on the production line. But to 300mm, 90nm manufacturing process there is little domestic equipment, not to mention to the 45nm process, "there is no mass production experience" has become China's semiconductor support the development of industry weakness.

Rapid development of PV industry in China in recent years, has brought new opportunities to support the development of. Because solar-grade equipment and materials than IC technology materials in electronic devices used in some precision requirements are relatively low, so to support industry with mass production of semiconductors in China solar grade equipment and material opportunities, but also to the local equipment and materials companies a very good development and profitability. With this opportunity, semiconductor, China hold the industry can rapidly expand to form scale. Solar, LED (light emitting diodes) as well as packaging and testing industry's contribution to the progressive development of China to Chinese semiconductor gradient provides a technology supporting industry, make these enterprises in different market development can be found on the technical level, and has accumulated valuable experience in mass production. Experience in the production and production technology, management experience and the accumulation of capital, be very beneficial for the development of integrated circuit industry.

At present, the global semiconductor industry presents two major trends. The first trend is the slowdown in the global semiconductor industry growth, lower margins; the second trend is the PV industry and LED (light emitting diode) the rapid development of the industry. LuxResearch (market research) for the solar market according to the latest forecast, global sales of an average annual growth rate of 27% growing from $ 21.2 billion in 2007 to us $ 70.9 billion in 2012.