Research: polysilicon material constraints restricting the growth rate of the semiconductor market

Analysts report J-Star Global Market Research Agency said the semiconductor industry estimates, polysilicon materials will lead to lack of global semiconductor market growth rate dropped this year, next year the global semiconductor market will be more depressed.

J-Star Global research company president and chief executive officer Yoshihisa Toyosaki is the head of the previous research firm iSuppli (Japan) company. He said the state of the semiconductor supply chain is critical to the growth of the semiconductor market. If polysilicon is endless, the semiconductor industry will continue to grow. However, the important problem is that the supply of polysilicon must be reliable.

The chief executive, warned: "this year and next year, the expected global semiconductor market growth rate of about 10%, the main analysis of the expected demand for semiconductors based on electronic device, but if the semiconductor and solar cells continue to grow, the gap will appear between the polysilicon supply and demand. The lack of polysilicon will have a new impact on the cycle of the use of silicon materials."

Research firm estimates that last year the global demand for polysilicon materials is about thirty thousand tons, of which about 2/3 for semiconductor products, solar cells for polycrystalline materials accounted for about 1/3. Since 2001, the demand for polysilicon materials has grown at an annual rate of 45%. Research firm estimates that if polysilicon suppliers to meet the supply of materials, the global demand for polysilicon in 2007 will reach forty thousand tons of polysilicon. However, the demand for solar cells for polysilicon will double over the same period, nearly twenty thousand tons.

Polysilicon material providers expand on demand response, this week Wacker Chemie AG provider of polysilicon materials company said it will increase 4500 tons of polysilicon materials, by the end of 2009, the production of polysilicon materials will reach 14500 tons.

The company's chief executive officer said that affected by the lack of polysilicon materials, the growth rate of the global semiconductor market this year will be reduced to 3.6% next year will decline by 0.3%. He said: Although I can not expect changes in the balance of polysilicon distribution, but I expect next year the global semiconductor market growth rate of 8.7%. Changes in the risk of polysilicon distribution will lead to a worse situation in the semiconductor industry."