Semiconductor Silicon Wafer Market Research - Industry Analysis, Growth, Size, Share, Trends, Forecast to 2025

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08th November 2018: Global Semiconductor Silicon Wafer Market is expected to witness a high growth on account growing microfabrication industry. The core base for most of the electronic devices are these silicon wafers. It is a thin slice of semiconductor material used for fabrication of integrated circuits. Wafer works as a substrate for microfabrication process including doping, ion implementation, etching and deposition of various materials.  Electronic device performance is dependent on the quality of these substrates. Therefore, high purity and defect free crystalline materials are used for its production. They are widely used in industries such as integrated circuits, detectors, sensors, MEMS fabrication and optoelectronic components. Silicon wafers are the basic block as semiconductor devices or chips are assembled on these substrates. Electronic devices including computers, consumer electronics, mobile devices and tablets are major instruments where these substrates find major applications.
Growing demand for these electronic goods is expected to propel the semiconductor silicon wafer industry growth over the forecast period. New devices are being introduced into the market such as smart watch, electronic glasses which uses microelectronic components. Changing consumer lifestyle mainly in Asia Pacific is expected to drive global industry growth in future. Integrated circuits are a part of durable electronic devices which include digital cameras and automatic washing machines, television sets and refrigerators.  Consumer market for these goods have shown a good growth and therefore significantly contributing wafer cleaning equipment demand. Silicon wafers manufacturers have been known to offer some environmental threats on account of by-products released during the manufacturing process.
Recycling is a costly process and increases the overall production cost. These factors are expected to pose a challenge to the overall industry growth. Use of alternatives such as silicon thin films is further hampering the demand. Silicon thin films are light in weight, less bulky and more economical in production and usage Such favourable features are expected to restrain global industry demand in the future. Solar cell manufacturing requires monocrystalline of multi crystalline solar wafers  Solar energy market is expected to provide great opportunity to global market growth over the forecast period. Segmentation is done based on size and dimension which include a diameter of 150 mm, 200 mm, 300 mm and 450 mm. The diameters have been gradually increasing to improve throughput and reduce cost. Thickness varies for these materials although they must be having the same diameter. They must have enough thickness in order to support their own weight to avoid cracking during handling.
Trends have shown that mergers and acquisitions are rare in this industry. However, one major acquisition was by MEMC Electronic Materials in 2009. MEMC acquired privately owned SunEdison and renamed itself in 2013 as SunEdison Inc. Collaboration with customers is a popular strategy observed in the global market. In 2011, MEMC collaborated with Samsung fine chemicals to build a polysilicon production plant in South Korea.  To reduce transportation cost and provide better after sales service, companies have been implementing production centres expansion mainly in developing regions including Asia Pacific.
Organisations have been investing heavily in research and development considering the rapid growth in the fabrication process. Demand for 150 diameters has been reducing constantly with the development of new 450 mm. On account of these trends, Siltronic closed down its 150 mm production line in 2012 at Portland, the U.S. The aim was to concentrate the production of low demand products at a single sight, therefore enhancing plant capacity and improving fixed cost coverage. Major companies work in accordance to ISO 9001: 2008 standards which specifies the requirement for quality management system. SEMI, headquartered in the U.S., is an independent special interest group whose members are those manufacturing polycrystalline or monocrystalline silicon wafers. SEMI organises annual meet to showcase best practices in the industry and boost knowledge transfer for technology development. They have been also conducting workshops for working professionals in the field of semiconductors. 
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