Quality Excursions Can Cost Fabs Hundreds of Millions of Dollars The Critical Materials Council (CMC), a unit of TECHCET, announces that their 4th annual public CMC Seminar will be focused on quality excursions and the global materials value-chain. Fabs such as local Taiwanese powerhouse TSMC have suffered millions of dollars in lost product revenues due to quality excursions in materials from global materials suppliers. The CMC Seminar is one…
Event in Taiwan 17 October will feature a keynote from Micron Technologies The Critical Materials Council (CMC) of semiconductor fabricators is pleased to announce that the keynote presentation for the 2019 CMC Seminar will be “Navigating Global and Local Semiconductor Materials Markets and Supply-Chains,” presented by Mr. KC Hsu, Vice President of Micron Memory Taiwan. The public CMC Seminar will be held on October 17th at the Fullon Hotel…
San Diego, CA, August 06, 2019: TECHCET—the advisory services firm providing electronic materials information—announced that the global market for quartz equipment consumables used in semiconductor manufacturing is forecasted to drop only -3% this year to US$1.26 billion for fabricated parts and $425M for base materials. These moderate decline estimates are attributed to current long lead-times and lean parts inventories; both positive signs amidst the negative growth (
San Diego, CA, July 22, 2019: TECHCET—the advisory services firm providing electronic materials information— announced that the global market for lithography materials in semiconductor manufacturing is forecasted to grow to US$3.2 billion in 2019 despite ongoing trade wars. As of July 4, Japan imposed export restrictions on three key materials purchased by S. Korea, including advanced photoresists, materials critical for semiconductor manufacturing. Trade tensions between the two countries are…
San Diego, CA, June 19, 2019: TECHCET—the advisory services firm providing electronic materials information— announced that the global market for chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) consumable materials in semiconductor manufacturing is forecasted to grow to US$2.7 billion in 2019. However, several suppliers report softening orders for the first half of 2019 due to shifting wafer starts combined with intensified industry efforts to save slurry costs through increasing dilution. There is also…
Event in Albany area 25-26 April featured GlobalFoundries keynote and presentations May 7, 2019 – San Diego, CA – Over 150 leading executives and managers within the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem gathered on April 25th and 26th in the Albany area of New York state for an important event on fabrication (fab) materials. The fourth-annual Critical Materials Council (CMC) Conference, produced by TECHCET, included topical presentations, a fab tour, exhibits…
Tariffs and Supply-Chains discussed at SEMICON China San Diego, CA, April 3, 2019: TECHCET—the electronic materials advisory services firm providing business and technology information— announced that uncertainties in global trade have created both rising and falling fortunes for China’s semiconductor fabrication materials industry. China’s exports are slowing compared to 4Q2018, especially for companies supplying to Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. However, material companies supplying into Europe have seen healthy bookings…
4th Annual Critical Materials Council (CMC) Conference April 25-26 in Saratoga Springs, New York a must-attend for business and technology professionals concerned with global supply-chains for semiconductor manufacturing. 2019 Critical Materials Council(CMC) Conference Sponsors TECHCET will host the 4th annual Critical Materials Council (CMC) Conference April 25-26 at the Saratoga Hotel and Casino in Saratoga Springs, New York. At the CMC Conference, business visionaries and manufacturing technologists gather to…
TECHCET’s Forecast Remains Strong Despite Trade Wars San Diego, CA, January 9, 2019: TECHCET—the electronic materials advisory services firm providing business and technology information— announced that global revenues for semiconductor manufacturing and packaging materials are expected to grow 3.1% year-over-year (YoY) in 2019 to US$50.4B, of which 58% represents semiconductor fab materials. Steadily increasing demand for memory chips in 2018 lifted total materials market revenues to US$48.9B in 2018,…
SAN DIEGO, CA; November 27, 2018: The annual Critical Materials Council (CMC) Seminar held October 29-30, 2018, in Ningbo, China in partnership with the IC Materials and Components Technology Innovation Alliance (ICMtia) of China was a great success, with over 350 people representing 23 fabs and over 100 materials suppliers in attendance. The photo shows ICMtia General Secretary Ingrid Shi (left) and TECHCET/CMC President and CEO Lita Shon-Roy (right)…
TECHCET CA LLC is an advisory services firm focused on materials supply-chain market analysis and technologies for electronic device markets.
Now integrated with TECHCET, the Critical Material Council (CMC) of leading semiconductor fabricators works to solve supply-chain issues in a pre-competitive environment.
Suppliers remain “expansion-ready” for incoming fabs San Diego, CA,…
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