Memory manufacturer Winbond announced to spend NT $ 630 million to buy Powerchip SCIENCE Taiwan exposure machine to cope with the needs of process scaling.

Lithography giant ASML apply to the Ministry of Economy R & D subsidies, grants will be 800 million yuan, China and Asia Linkou park inaugurated the new plant will be in early 2013, will expand not only in Taiwan, the Netherlands levy only two places, but will accelerate the expansion of components Taiwan to release a single plant, including the letter states, Gudeng, sails Xuan, and other public and quasi-station plant, ASML will also carefully selected 30 top quality, adventurous character trained personnel back to the Netherlands, to be used as seed team in cooperation with TSMC.

Semiconductor lithography equipment maker ASML After obtaining three major semiconductor customers to invest NT $ 200 billion, announced and then further upstream tied pile to 1.95 billion euros (equivalent to about NT $ 75 billion yuan) acquisition of US source supplier Cymer. ASML said the 8-inch 12-inch wafer transfer generation equipment manufacturers suffer too much pressure to make future generations must be 18 inches chain together to share the risk, EUV technology has been proved to work, but the bottleneck in the light source, ASML currently has three light source supplier, respectively U.S. Cymer, Japan Gigaphoto and Ushio, various different mining techniques, after a period of time to cooperate, ASML decided merger Cymer, and affirms its LPP (Laser produced Plasma) light source technology is expected to become the mainstream of future production, ASML noted that the current six Pre -Production of EUV machine (NXE: 3100) has shipped to TSMC, Intel, Samsung, Hynix, GlobalFoundries, IMEC, etc., and will launch mass production machine (NXE: 3300B) in 2014. at present, this machine per hour producing 18 wafers, 69 wafers can be achieved by 2014, ASML as a 18-inch wafer generation key role in obtaining the customer’s investment after three acquisitions light plant Cymer, this series of investment to the semiconductor industry chain to string together, show parties want some sort of relief for the 18-inch wafer generations.

TSMC recently named Great American Semiconductor Equipment Business lei (KLA-Tencor) electron beam (E-beam) partners technically one of the devices, in addition to Mapper Lithography and IMS. 7 nm process in the future have the opportunity to pole ultraviolet (EUV) machine for the competition. for 10nm process, TSMC will EUV and Double Patterning with the use of machines in 7nm process, TSMC will make a choice in the EUV and E-beam machine machine table.

TSMC announced to join the semiconductor plant ASML Holding (ASML) Customer joint investment projects to accelerate the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology and 18-inch wafer lithography equipment development and production. To allow the smooth development of key lithography, ASML Netherlands semiconductor plant in July 9 announced the launching of joint investment projects customers, invite Intel (Intel), TSMC and Samsung (Samsung) 3 manufacturers to participate. Intel first to decide to participate ASML customers joint investment projects, TSMC after nearly a month assessment, announced it has joined ASML customers joint investment projects; Under the agreement, TSMC will invest up to 838 million euros ASML achieved about 5% stake in ASML, the next five years and invest 276 million euros to support ASML’s research and development program.

Intel announced plans to invest lithography equipment maker ASML (ASML Holding) $ 4.1 billion, the company will initially invest about $ 2.1 billion ASML Holding, acquired a 10% stake, and then after about $ 1 billion, to obtain additional 5% stake, ASML Holding devices play a key role in the semiconductor lithography process. Such machines require several years of preparation before delivery. Intel and other competitors to convert from the current 12-inch to 18-inch process, you must upgrade equipment. Conversion to 18-inch process can increase productivity, reduce production costs. Co-sponsored by the ASML investment solicitation plan also waved to TSMC, Samsung.

“International Optoelectronics Exhibition” First introduced in 1984, is Taiwan’s electromechanical industry annual event and marketing stage. The exhibition in photoelectric technology as the core, integrating related semiconductor, electronics, optical communications, laser, optics, precision machinery; materials for optoelectronic applications of the entire display industry, Yuan / components, applications, production equipment, plant facilities and services hardware and software technology.

International Optoelectronics Exhibition has been set up to enter the market stage show Taiwan’s optoelectronics industry. Continued support and participation by the manufacturers, and with the rapid development of Taiwan’s optoelectronics technology, making the international photoelectric exhibition shine in the international arena, so that Taiwan’s optoelectronic products global attention. Has become one of the world’s major photovoltaic exhibition, is the industry’s annual exhibition not to be missed, the public are welcome to take part in this industry event, the creation of new value photoelectric Taiwan together.

2012-06-17 01:27 [Business Times reporter Yang Xiaofang / Taipei】

The annual Taipei International Optoelectronics Week and the 2012 Taiwan FPD will since 19 日 (Tuesday) to 21 at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Hall debut this year, including a display, LED, solar energy, optical communications, optical components total 820 exhibitors, related stocks into focus, organizers estimated that this year will exceed 400 million visitors, while the mainland visiting delegation will also be more than 500 people, line-up record highs. Optical Exhibition visiting delegation to mainland China this year, in addition to the exhibitors, the exhibition outside the interview buyers, Industrial Alliance group from the mainland to Taiwan to apply for a total of 36 groups, including mainland BOE this year for the first time to Taiwan, becoming the heavyweight key buyer . One of the organizers TAITRA invited to the vice president of “China Video Industry Association,” White people, on the other hand, LED as well as the relevant State Lighting R & D and Industry Alliance, Hong Kong electromechanical Council, China CCCME China’s OLED industry Alliance.

Display Taiwan this year, especially with the Theme Pavilion planning AMOLED touch area, a total of 204 exhibitors. End of this year will be listed on the operating system Microsoft Win8 touch technology will allow more yuan to extend the end products to expand, especially in more notebook, PC product applications, let “touch” start another boom, but also to the touch-related research will become the highlight of this year’s panel display exhibition, including the F-TPK (TPK) CEO Tom Sun speech “post-PC era of touch technology”; touch fab Elan electricity, Yang Jian begin to talk about the theme of the touch panel of the wafer market and technological developments. AMOLED museum there from the mainland Tianma Micro, Korea and Taiwan KOLON rhenium treasure, Jing Chi, Yao Ling and other manufacturers.

LED lighting exhibition, this year’s Taipei International Photonics is the largest industry exhibition, over 253 exhibitors manufacturers, especially this year, more than LED lighting planning relevant international forums and workshops, including Everlight, Epistar, Formosa Epitaxy, Delta, Qisda, Philips and other manufacturers are all Speaker; in addition, Taiwan’s Council of Agriculture also special guidance plant factory exhibition exhibitors, will apply to set up LED plant factory museum experience. Solar photovoltaic area, a number of exhibitors this year, a total of 65, there are Ministry of Economic Affairs Bureau of Energy Speaker sun roof dust million plan, and invited Pingtung, Kaohsiung, Tainan City, Yunlin County, Taichung City were Photovoltaic Urban Forum. In addition to these three major solo exhibition, Photonics plus the other solo exhibitions include OPTO Taiwan, optical communications exhibition and looking forward to cross-strait academic area and photoelectric exhibition, this year a total of 820 companies, up 2,018 booths scale.

Deya developed parallel UV exposure source, high-resolution mask aligner exposure, access to R & D units and industry use in ceramic heat element, quartz components, precision metal film benevolence, LED, power diodes, laser diode and touch panel phones and other industries are shipping performance. Deya manager Zhuren Liang said Deya manufacturing mask aligner exposure and the exposure source has been six years, the products are suitable for research laboratories full manual models, and industry production line of semi-automatic and fully automatic models, and continued research and development new models last year, the new proximity automatic exposure machine, the alignment station single single exposure source designed maximum capacity of up to six minutes per substrate, 2 to 3 times the capacity of other brands. Deya parallel UV exposure source power of 350 watts to 5,000 watts, a light 4-inch to 12-inch diameter; mask aligner exposure machine has single-sided, double-sided aligned, double exposure, and other process functions, a variety of models available available.

Factory in Taiwan exposure micron line width grading process, all kinds of electronic components used in exposure technology has been able to handle, are cheap and service advantages to the ground, and gradually replace foreign equipment; Deya business with small and beautiful location, step by step into development, and manufacturing, manufacturers find a niche in the market competition. Deya mask aligner machine is suitable for LED and diodes, and other electronic components, and ceramic, quartz, glass, sheet metal and other substrate production lines, access to business trust and order, school and research laboratory industry uses after all positive comments.