Electronic materials: the next dilemma of China's semiconductor industry?

Semiconductor industry chain under fault. When you walk in Jiangsu, Kunshan, Shanghai Zhangjiang Road, you will be attracted by the row upon row of semiconductor factory. As the core component of the information industry, the semiconductor industry has been developing rapidly in china. After a cyclical recession, the global semiconductor market is recovering under the leadership of "made in China". However, we can't ignore that, although Chinese has become the global semiconductor market "locomotive", however, there are professionals that lack of electronic materials industry, the semiconductor industry chain will make Chinese fault.

It is understood that, as an important part of semiconductor manufacturing, electronic materials generally include PVD (sputtering) target, dielectric, electronic chemicals, sputtering room management, packaging and optoelectronics, etc..

An industry source pointed out that as of 2004, China's 8 inch production line has a total of 10, mainly in Shanghai, Suzhou and other places, the monthly trading volume has been close to 300 thousand. But 8 inches, 12 inches polished film, epitaxial wafer imported from abroad, high-grade high purity reagents, photoresist also imported from abroad, virtually increased manufacturing costs, is not conducive to the development of chip manufacturing.

The research of electronic materials manufacturing, chemical industry, involving metallurgical machinery and electronics, automatic control and other professional knowledge, high technology content, performance, its quality directly affects the reliability and safety of electronic components and the whole machine. However, in our country, there are still a lot of distance between the technology and the foreign countries. Therefore, the domestic semiconductor companies are still using advanced technology in the field of wafer processing and packaging.

Although the electronic material industry China exist many difficulties, but also at a competitive disadvantage, but because of the big domestic demand and the semiconductor industry to Chinese, China electronic materials market has great development potential and business opportunities. Today, foreign electronics giant is also preparing to enter china.

Honeywell helps China's electronics industry to prosper

"The electronic material industry is very worthy of development, I believe that electronic materials become an industry in the China will, Honeywell is willing to cooperate sincerely with domestic electronic material supply enterprises and research institutions, and jointly promote the prosperity of electronic materials industry." This is the day before Honeywell specialtymaterials Asia president yuan Guangning, said in an interview with reporters said.

Honeywell is the world's fortune 100, last year's global sales revenue reached $25 billion 600 million, its business involves aviation products and services, turbine power products, automation products, specialty materials and other fields. Honeywell electronic materials division is a strategic Department of the company's special materials group. Under the leadership of the court of Guangning, in 2004, the total sales of electronic materials, chemicals and functional products in the Asia Pacific region by special materials group was more than US $350 million.

In the past ten years before joining Honeywell, Dr. PolyOne served as general manager of asia. During this period, he will PolyOne from business in Asia only one employee, responsible for $2 million in the import business of small companies, become annual sales of more than $100 million, more than 400 employees, with 4 manufacturing plants in Chinese, Singapore and Thailand large international enterprises.

As a doctor of chemistry about the electronic material industry park of Guangning, immediately off the reel up: "as the world's leading suppliers of semiconductor materials, Honeywell has 40 years of experience in the supply of chemicals and metals to the customer, is the world's top 90%% semiconductor manufacturer partners."

Honeywell electronic materials mainly provide electronic chemicals, spin coating and other advanced spin coating materials, so that customers can use the most advanced process in the field. Also, Honeywell also offers a wide range of products through the metal business sectors, including physical vapor deposition (PVD) target and coil group, noble metal thermocouples and back-end packaging materials used in the process (thermal management and electrical interconnection).

Turning to the advantages of Honeywell, the court is very proud of Guangning language, he said: Honeywell electronic materials to meet the increasingly complex needs of global semiconductor manufacturers. The production of integrated circuits involves hundreds of processing steps, which are affected by the choice of customer material. Other material suppliers provide specialized technical support single limited series of products, and we solve the problem of programs to deal with customers face in development at the same time, the business was carefully designed, the former process (wafer processing) to process (packaging and testing) all achieved with the knowledge of chemistry and metallurgy. In addition, our local business support, as well as in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region's support for our semiconductor industry to become the leading supplier of materials laid the foundation."

"China's development of electronic materials industry has great advantages and potential." Yuan Guangning said, especially the need for Chinese vast territory and abundant resources, the integrated circuit production of aluminum, titanium, copper, cobalt and nickel, and other metal content is very rich. However, these materials must be of high purity in the production and application of integrated circuits. At present, there is still a big gap in the research and development of products and technologies in this area. Honeywell is willing to work with the Chinese companies and universities in the field of integrated circuit electronic materials manufacturing and supply has many years of experience to promote