Semiconductors are mobile phones, computers, digital home appliances and automotive equipment, the core components. Iwate Prefecture in Japan's Toshiba Semiconductor Electronics and Fujitsu, is located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, Renesas and Texas Instruments and other electronics companies in the large factory premises by the direct impact of the earthquake; As of now, no signs of recovery.
Japan's overall share of the semiconductor production equipment, 37% overall share of semiconductor materials and more than 66%.glue gun Japan swept the eastern region of this earthquake and tsunami to the industrial economy of the world's semiconductor industry has brought a significant extent affected?
Limited power to production facilities can not function properly.
Japanese media reported that Toshiba is located in Iwate Prefecture semiconductor electronics and Fujitsu, is located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, Renesas and Texas Instruments electronics companies such as factory buildings were shattered by the direct impact. So far, appears to be no signs of recovery.
Meanwhile, the Fukushima nuclear power plant occurred in the first major accident, the Japanese capital Tokyo has fallen into a serious shortage of electricity supply situation. Tokyo Electric Power outage began implementation plan, but has yet to determine which companies will be planning the specific power constraints.glue stick In addition to direct damage caused by the earthquake, which no doubt another major semiconductor manufacturers out of the problem.
Semiconductor factories are usually installed in hundreds of production equipment, most of which are precision equipment or vacuum equipment. Even if the plan is just 3 hours power, but also in power before the gas and liquid hazardous industrial processing, power failures, need to carefully after hundreds of devices on the overall performance of inspection. Some devices can even take days to complete activation. Therefore, even if planned power outage affected the region's semiconductor companies have minimal impact, but if you plan to power outage continues, they will have to stop production.
In addition, the semiconductor chip is the mobile phone, computer, digital home appliances and automotive equipment such as core components. If these products are used in the production of semiconductor chips in Japan, then, their production will be stalled.
For example, U.S. auto makers General Motors has suspended the Louisiana plant. Because they are difficult to purchase spare parts from Japan. Important components include the ECU (Engine ControlUnit), which is the engine of the micro-controller, electrical control, but also a semiconductor product.
Japan's production equipment and raw materials support the worldwide semiconductor industry.
So, for the world market, the Japanese semiconductor Just how important?
Mid-80s of last century, the world's share of the Japanese semiconductor has more than 50%. Since then despite the decline, but in 2010 the share of Japan's semiconductor production still accounts for 20.8% of the world. Another 80% were from the United States, Europe, Korea, China Taiwan and other Asian semiconductor manufacturers.
From the data, the earthquake's impact on the Japanese do not seem to semiconductor factories. However, far from it.
30 kinds of semiconductor chips requires equipment, 19 types of materials. As long as one kind of equipment or one kind of material can not be supplied to the production of semiconductor chips can not be completed.
First of all, from the production equipment in the field of view, the overall Japanese semiconductor manufacturing equipment share was 37%. The share of each device from the point of view, Japan has more than 10 more than 50% market share of monopoly facilities.
In this earthquake, the Tokyo Electron, Nikon, Canon, Hitachi High-Tech factory and other equipment manufacturers directly affected. Also, because the production equipment needs posed by the thousands of components, some manufacturers will take of the land between the supply chain chaos due to forced to stop production.
Secondly, from the material field of view, the overall share of the Japanese semiconductor materials over 66%. 19 kinds of materials in this, Japan has more than 50% share of the material would account for 14!
The material directly affected firms are Shin-Etsu Chemical, SUMCO, Tokyo should be the chemical industry, Hitachi Chemical, Sumitomo Chemical, Asahi Kasei, Toray, such as Showa Denko and Organo.
United States, Europe, Korea, China Taiwan, semiconductor manufacturers use a 37% share of total world production of semiconductor production equipment in Japan, more than 66% of Japan's world share of production of semiconductor materials, production was about 80% of the world's semiconductor chips.
Spread to the world economy and daily life.
Direct earthquake losses, the power supply power under the plan, the traffic chaos on supply chain network blocking - in these reasons, the Japanese semiconductor production equipment and semiconductor materials in the production and supply of stagnation, its how it affected the scope of ?
To the world's top three semiconductor (U.S. Intel, Samsung Electronics, China Taiwan TSMC) led the production of the world's semiconductor manufacturers will be subject to different degrees. After the semiconductor chip as the core components of mobile phones, computers, digital home appliances and production of cars and other equipment which will be stalled due to a chain reaction.
The world's 6.9 billion people and economic activities of daily life will no doubt be affected. In other words, the earthquake occurred in Japan in the world like dominoes, such as "tsunami"-like spread to a huge range.
WORM: major semiconductor companies have a helping hand.
In order not to make matters worse, two weeks, the world's leading semiconductor-related businesses continue to lend a helping hand, wants to help Japanese affected people, regional, corporate early recovery.
Semiconductor production equipment maker Novellus United States in the March 14 donation 100 million, Chairman and CEO Richard? Hill said: "There is no Japanese semiconductor industry, high-tech electronic products to the world of all QoL (quality of life, life quality) will not be able to achieve the improvements brought about. "
Samsung offers in the March 15 donation of 1 million yen, the Japanese Samsung staff also raised 10 million yen in donations. South Korea's Samsung on March 20 decided to provide a total equivalent of 620 million yen in aid. In addition, Samsung also provide communications for the affected personnel, including WiFi Internet connection through a wireless tablet PCs, mobile phones and other battery backup is equivalent to 390 million yen total items.
DELL U.S. computer makers, said in the March 16 contributed a total of $ 1,000,000. 60 million as corporate donations remitted to the Japanese Red Cross, and another 40 million as employee contributions remitted to the public welfare organization. In addition, the company also provides server to the affected areas, computers and other material support.
U.S. Intel on March 22, said about 1.7 million U.S. dollars donation. The Intel Foundation, the company's charity donation 100 million, 35 million people collecting donations, Intel Foundation provided the matching funds system, 35 million, a total of about 170 million U.S. dollars. In addition, Intel also plans to send technicians to the affected areas to restore IT infrastructure.
Furthermore, fabless provider Xilinx in the United States March 23 and also through the American Red Cross public service organizations in Asia "Give2 Asia" to the Japanese earthquake donations $ 500,000.