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semiconductor test equipment
market is expected to increase 13
percent, reaching $5.7 billion in
2020, and continue the growth
momentum in 2021 on the back of
5G demand.
Regionally, China, Taiwan and
Korea are expected to lead the
pack in spending in 2020. Robust
spending in China in the foundry
and memory sectors is expected
to vault the region to the top in
total semiconductor equipment
spending in 2020 and 2021. Taiwan
equipment spending, after seeing 68
percent growth in 2019, is forecast
to contract this year but bounce
back with 10 percent growth in
2021, with the region maintaining
the second spot in equipment investments. Korea is expected to rank
third in semiconductor equipment
investments in 2020 by outstripping
its 2019 levels, making it the
third top spender in 2020. Korea
equipment spending is projected to
grow 30 percent in 2021 powered by
the memory investment recovery.
Most other regions tracked will also
see growth in 2020 or 2021.
The current SEMI forecast is
based on collective input from
top equipment suppliers, SEMI’s
industry-recognized World
Fab Forecast database, and
SEMI’s Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (WWSEMS) data collection
program.
Edwards’ Integrated Solutions for Managing
Hazardous Materials
PETE SINGER, E d i t o r - i n - C h i e f
Semiconductor manufacturing processes can result in a variety of nasty
byproducts, including materials that
are labeled as “energetic,” meaning
they are hazardously exothermic,
pyrophoric, water reactive, or a
material that reacts with air or water
to form a product with one of those
properties. How to safely handle and
monitor these materials is, of course,
a big concern in every fab.
To aid in this effort, SEMI recently published the S30-0719 safety
guideline for use of energetic materials in semiconductor R&D and
manufacturing processes, which
provides guidelines to serve as a
minimum set of safety criteria for
the procurement, storage, handling,
and use of energetic materials in the
semiconductor industry. Conforming
to these guidelines will help eliminate hazards and control risks when
energetic materials are used by implementing industry best practices.
www.semiconductordigest.com
In advanced of SEMICON West
produced. We can do that quite
2020, Semiconductor Digest caught
effectively in line with SEMI S-30,
up with Andy Mann, Global Product because we’re combining BKMs
Manager, Integration Solutions,
(best known methods) into a single
at Edwards Vacuum, to talk about
solution that we can offer to cuswhat people can do to conform to
tomers and take away all that worry
the standard, protect cleanroom
from them.”
personnel and equipment, and keep
Edwards has developed strategies
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the fab up and running smoothly
for understanding
with high productivity.
“The guidelines that have
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the solutions-type approach
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about making sure that we’ve
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got the best-known methods
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in place for dealing with
a particular chemical gas
Cindy Chamberlin, Art Director
or byproduct that’s being
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