On December 14, according to VantageHub, strong demand in the semiconductor materials market, coupled with strong sales of CMP abrasive pads, special gases and other materials, research TECHCET expects the market size to exceed $66 billion this year, up 8% from last year. Looking ahead to next year, due to the global economy faces many challenges, sales may recession.

The survey said that this year, grinding pads, special gases, precursor materials, SOI wafers and other market growth is strong, all double-digit growth over last year, next year by the overall economic uncertainty, the semiconductor industry revenue is expected to decline, including storage equipment manufacturers revenue decline is greater.

Research pointed out that the semiconductor materials market revenue is relatively flat this year, but sales will decline compared to this year, is expected to decline next year wafer crop rate, including storage crop rate decline, will make the former body, special gases, cleaning with chemical sales affected.

However, the advanced process semiconductor materials next year is still more than 5% growth than this year. Overall, despite the recessionary concerns, but in the United States under the chip bill to promote the second half of next year, there will be more money betting on the semiconductor market, driving the materials market back to the growth track in the third quarter of next year.

source：aijiwei