Taiwan-based Phoenix Silicon International (PSI), devoted to wafer reclaim, wafer thinning and MEMS mid-end course of companies, plans to arrange a brand new plant to meet strong orders from worldwide IDMs, and has dominated out China as the placement for the plant, in keeping with firm chairman Mike Yang
Yang mentioned that to satisfy the ever-mounting demand, PSI is slated to kick off development of a second plant in 2021 most likely in Taiwan’s northern central county of Miaoli or within the Philippines, however “absolutely” not in China to avert potential dangers related to US-China commerce warfare.
The firm now boasts the world’s largest wafer thinning manufacturing capability, with IDMs resembling Infineon and TI amongst its shoppers for the service, trade sources mentioned, including TSMC is now PSI’s largest wafer reclaim buyer.
PSI’s month-to-month wafer reclaim capability at its 12-inch plant now reaches round 210,000 items and month-to-month wafer thinning capability at 70,000-80,000 items, with the capacities growing by 20% a yr because of robust demand from worldwide IDMs.
At the second, wafer reclaim service contributes 40-50% of PSI revenues, adopted by wafer thinning (30-40%) and MEMS mid-end course of (10-15%). In phrases of product functions, wafer reclaim service covers IC manufacturing circulate monitoring and IC manufacturing parameter validation; wafer thinning is principally offered for industrial-use and auto-use semiconductor energy gadgets; and MEMS service is principally for biometric chips and microphone chips.
Yang disclosed that pushed by speedy improvement of electrical autos, industrial automation and inexperienced vitality functions, worldwide IDMs have constantly expanded their outsourcing orders for wafer thinning, prompting PSI to have interaction in mid-end course of expertise for tremendous skinny wafers resembling 25-micron 10-micron along with growing manufacturing capability. Meanwhile, PSI can be actively creating high-spec wafer reclaim choices whereas additionally serving to shoppers deal with mid-end course of for MEMS chips for acoustic, optical and medical functions.
After seeing its annual revenues for 2018 surge 14.34% on yr to NT$2.12 billion (US$67.48 million), PSI’s first-quarter 2019 revenues shot up 28.57% from a yr earlier to a file single-quarter excessive of NT$594 million. The firm’s revenues for the second quarter are anticipated to take care of an annual progress of over 20%. But income performances for the second half of the yr will hinge on the event of the US-China commerce warfare.
Phoenix Silicon International chairman Mike Yang
Photo: Monica Chen, Digitimes, May 2019
