Category: CMP Consumables

Supply chain issues easing but still some delays for sub-assemblies and parts San Diego, CA, February 23, 2023:  TECHCET— the electronic materials advisory firm providing business and technology information on semiconductor supply chains — is forecasting the Semiconductor CMP materials market to decline around 4% for both pads and slurries in 2023. This decline comes after a year of solid growth in the 2022 CMP segment that reached 3.5B…

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Increases Driven by 3DFinFET and X-Stack 3DNAND San Diego, CA, February 15, 2023:  TECHCET— the electronic materials advisory firm providing business and technology information on semiconductor supply chains — has announced that the market segment for Semiconductor CMP Ancillaries (pad conditioners, CMP rings, filters, and brushes) will reach US$1.55 B by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 6%. However, the market is expected to decline slightly this year and…

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Industry experts collaborate on new and coming science for CMP San Diego, CA, October 6, 2022:  TECHCET—the electronic materials advisory firm providing business and technology information— attended The International Conference on Planarization Technology (ICPT) last week, September 27-29, at the historic Benson hotel, in Portland, Oregon. “The conference is a perfect mix of university and industry experts coming together to understand and advance the science and process of CMP,”…

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San Diego, CA, September 20, 2022:  TECHCET—the electronic materials advisory firm providing business and technology information— is closely tracking issues in the critical materials supply chain, including those related to CMP (chemical mechanical planarization) slurries needed for semiconductor production. The CMP slurry supply chain is experiencing strain from limited production capacity in the midst of continued strong demand from chip fabricators. Slurry suppliers are struggling to balance the demands…

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as legacy products are replaced by leading edge San Diego, CA, May 24, 2022:  TECHCET—the electronic materials advisory firm providing business and technology information— announced the Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) consumables market for semiconductors grew almost 13% in 2021 to reach US$3.0 billion. The CMP market, including both slurries and pads, will grow almost 9% in 2022 to US$3.3 billion, and the forecast through 2026 shows this market growing…

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