In July with our “Semiconductor Manufacturing” magazine published a reader survey, the deepest impression of a general feedback from Chongqing Sheng Shen Hong, vice president of electronics company, in March this year organized by the China International Semiconductor Technology Conference CSTIC impression column, his response was “the development of semiconductor technology to the bottleneck stage”, while SEMICON the impression that the “mainstream semiconductor technology trends behind the non-mainstream technology.”

Sharply in the two sentences sum up the semiconductor and photovoltaic, LED industry today, is also a continuation of Moore’s Law on the difficulty and “More than Moore” the best interpretation of the rapid development. Development of semiconductor technology to the bottleneck may not be technical no room for development, but simply because R & D inputs and outputs out of proportion, leading to many companies continue to exit the stage for 32nm or 22nm, at the same time began to explore related fields. Industry chain, many equipment and materials companies also seem to be more “brains” on the development of new fields.

This year, we found that many traditional semiconductor companies very active in the photovoltaic field, for the PV industry into a lot of the concept of the semiconductor industry, driven rapid advances in technology, but also for traditional PV company also brought a minor impact. Let us look at the Top 5 Semiconductor Company in 2010 “PV action” it.

The top 5 largest semiconductor manufacturers in 2010 PV action

Foundry giant TSMC Chang led the marshals set up a new business unit, an active part in the PV field, the market came to send, will be deployed Motech TSMC will vigorously layout photovoltaic industry news, while TSMC signed with STIon Technology and production of CIGS thin film battery supply into the areas of agreement. IC R & D of the 2 major camps IBM and IMEC also started to actively participate in the fight to improve the efficiency of photovoltaic conversion.

There will be many reasons behind the phenomenon. With the energy saving, green earth, the concept of universal energy crisis, the representative of the emerging solar energy, and energy star has been the grace of the natural aura of the LED. Highly technical nature of the face of new market opportunities similar, semiconductor companies are a little unconvinced it is very difficult. Moreover, the relative IC, PV technology, the complexity gap is so large, makes it easy to produce “a piece of cake” feeling. The PV market is definitely the future should not be overlooked, although sales of semiconductor photovoltaic component is still more than 10 times, but fast-growing market is the most worthy of large-scale investment. I do not know Suntech, First Solar companies feel at this time whether the threat from the traditional semiconductor companies?

To Applied Materials equipment and materials represented companies are beginning to attack, hope soup poured share in emerging markets, and even re-hegemony, many of semiconductor R D personnel R D directly into the PV team. Local equipment and materials companies also are expanding the product line to the field of PV and LED, 48, of Union Branch Hill Knowlton, Seven Star, microelectronics and other northern areas of strong opponents of traditional semiconductors have now successfully entered the semiconductor field, rather than high technology threshold is to play the advantages of China’s domestic manufacturers.

The next 5 years, the world’s top 10 PV module manufacturing companies, I believe that semiconductor companies will be able to see the traditional figure. PV equipment top10 list of the world, in addition to Applied, Ulvac, more semiconductor equipment company will be here to take a seat. I believe the semiconductor New Army With the strong technical foundation to be a mature market with the idea to the PV industry to bring an unprecedented impact.

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