The road to localization of MOCVD equipment is long

As semiconductor lighting has gradually become the main driving force for the development of the LED industry, the existing monopoly equipment can not meet the needs of large-scale LED production and high-speed development of the industry, which provides a leap-forward development for realizing the strategic goal of localization of large-scale MOCVD equipment. Opportunity.

The domestic semiconductor lighting industry started later than Europe and the United States, so it is always the focus of government policy to vigorously support the "leap-forward development" of the semiconductor lighting industry. As the core of the entire LED industry chain, the localization of epitaxial chips and MOCVD equipment has naturally become the top priority.

Since 2011, many domestic LED equipment companies have begun to try to introduce localized MOCVD equipment. By the end of 2012, more than ten companies including Zhonghao Optoelectronics, Zhongwei Semiconductor, Ideal Energy, and Guangdong Zhaoxin had been involved in the research and development of MOCVD equipment. Some of the enterprises' equipments have reached the level of large-scale industrialization, and they are also quite competitive with international manufacturers in terms of ease of use and cost.

Dr. Chen Aihua, Chairman of Zhonghao Optoelectronic Equipment (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. said that the localization of MOCVD equipment will be a long process and cannot be accomplished overnight.

"At present, most companies do not dare to expect too much from domestic MOCVD equipment in the short term, because the average service life of LED lighting equipment is around 5-7 years, which has high requirements for MOCVD." Zhao Jinrong, president of Northern Microelectronics, said that due to LED market competition is very fierce, product quality is the life of the enterprise. If large-scale use of domestic MOCVD equipment in the short term may bring greater uncertainty to product quality, MOCVD equipment needs constant maintenance and update, and equipment supplier. The strength requirements are also higher.

According to the results of interviews with many domestic chip manufacturers, the use of domestic MOCVD by epitaxial chip companies also means that they will not be adopted on a large scale in the short term unless they are market-proven.

"In the field of high-end equipment manufacturing, with the gradual maturity of domestically produced equipment, the price of imported equipment will often fall by a large margin, which will have certain advantages in terms of equipment cost for the latecomers of the industry. But this advantage is not industrial competition. The decisive factor, the company is confident to digest the relatively high cost of equipment through the leading advantages of core technology research and development, market size, etc. At the same time, we believe that in the field of LED epitaxy and chip manufacturing equipment, the domestic equipment is not yet fully mature and has replaced The extent of imported equipment.” Epitaxial chip maker Dehao Runda (002005.SZ) responded to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange interactive platform on whether to consider the use of domestic MOCVD equipment.

The attitude of Dehao Runda also represents the voice of many domestic and foreign chip companies.

Dr. Du Zhiyou, senior vice president of micro-semiconductor equipment at home-grown MOCVD manufacturers, said that domestic MOCVD must be better in terms of stability, reliability, and ease of use and maintenance services for later customers, in order to compete with foreign manufacturers such as Aixtron and Veeco.

"The localization of MOCVD is currently promising, but the road is still very tortuous and has a long way to go. In the process of localization, the government needs to support domestic equipment manufacturers in terms of policies and financing channels, and also needs the entire LED industry chain to support domestic manufacturers. Chen Aihua said that the current process of MOCVD localization has reached the most critical time. It is spring.

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