Semiconductor target materials are critical raw materials in semiconductor manufacturing, and their importance is self-evident. Today, we will take a deep dive into the influential international and domestic companies in this field.
1. International Companies
1. JX Nippon Mining & Metals
Founded in 1905, JX Nippon Mining & Metals is a giant in the global semiconductor sputtering target industry. The company has a wide range of businesses, not only deeply involved in the mining of non-ferrous metal resources but also excelling in the production and sales of functional materials, thin film materials, tantalum, and niobium products, while placing a high emphasis on the recycling of non-ferrous metals. As a leader in the industry, it supplies important resources such as copper, rare metals, and precious metals, and manufactures various advanced materials. With its strong technical capabilities and large industrial scale, it holds a 30% share of the global semiconductor sputtering target market, making it a true industry leader.
2. Honeywell
Founded in 1885, Honeywell has continuously developed since entering the Chinese market in 1935, and today its four major business groups have established a strong presence in China, with wholly-owned and joint ventures in multiple cities. Its Safety and Productivity Solutions group has performed exceptionally well, providing a wide range of products and services to over 500 million workers worldwide. In the semiconductor target material field, it leverages its deep technical accumulation and outstanding innovation capabilities, achieving world-leading product precision and stability for high-end chip manufacturing targets, capturing 20% of the global market share.
3. Tokai Carbon
Founded in 1935, Tokai Carbon Co., Ltd. is a well-known large petrochemical enterprise group in Japan. The company has two main business pillars: general chemical products and functional products, with a rich product line spanning petrochemicals, inorganic chemicals, fine chemicals, chlor-alkali products, electronic materials, and life sciences. Since establishing a production base in China in 2004, it has continued to expand, now operating over a hundred branches worldwide. In the semiconductor target material sector, its products are widely used in flat panel displays and semiconductor chip manufacturing, holding a 20% share of the global market.
4. Praxair
Praxair Surface Technologies focuses on the research, promotion, and application of surface technology, providing comprehensive thermal spray solutions that include thermal spray equipment, spray materials, and coating processing services. Its products are widely used in various industrial fields such as aerospace, oil, and chemicals. In the sputtering target material field, it mainly offers various metal and alloy targets, holding a 10% share of the global market.
2. Domestic Companies
1. Jiangfeng Electronics
Founded in 2005, Jiangfeng Electronics is a high-tech enterprise focused on the research and production of ultra-pure metal materials and sputtering targets. The company is deeply engaged in the ultra-large-scale integrated circuit manufacturing industry, fully mastering the entire process technology for metals such as AI, Ti, Ta, and Cu, with complete independent intellectual property rights and over a thousand patent applications. Its products have successfully entered the list of internationally renowned semiconductor suppliers, becoming a core supplier for global chip manufacturers such as TSMC, SK Hynix, and UMC.
2. Yuyuan New Materials
Yuyuan New Materials, under Yuyuan Yijin, focuses on the research, production, and sales of new thin film materials and precious metal materials in the microelectronics and optoelectronics fields. In the domestic market, Yuyuan Yijin has become a leading manufacturer of high-purity metal sputtering targets due to its large scale, complete product categories, and outstanding technical strength. It is also one of the few domestic companies capable of achieving vertical integration from ultra-pure raw materials to sputtering targets and evaporation film materials.
3. Longhua Technology
Longhua Technology has several subsidiaries that excel in the target material field. Among them, Sifeng Electronics is dedicated to the research, production, and sales of electronic information targets and ultra-high temperature special functional materials, with main products including molybdenum and molybdenum alloy targets, copper targets, titanium targets, tungsten targets, and ultra-high temperature special functional materials, becoming a major supplier of high-end metal targets in China; Jinglian Optoelectronics focuses on the research, production, and sales of high-quality indium tin oxide (ITO) targets, holding numerous intellectual property rights and patents, and is one of the first domestic companies to achieve mass production of ITO targets for high-generation TFTs, with products exported to Europe, America, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and other regions.
4. TBEA
TBEA focuses on the high-purity aluminum sputtering target-related segments, with its Xinjiang Zhonghe being the only company in China capable of large-scale production of ultra-pure aluminum-based sputtering target blanks. The ultra-pure aluminum sputtering targets produced are gradually gaining prominence in semiconductor chip manufacturing and have made significant contributions to the development of the domestic semiconductor target material industry.
These international and domestic semiconductor material target manufacturing companies, leveraging their respective technologies, products, and market advantages, occupy important positions in the industry, collectively driving the development and progress of the semiconductor material target industry. In the future, with the continuous innovation of semiconductor technology, it is believed that these companies will bring more surprises.