China's first self-produced MOCVD equipment to be tested before the Spring Festival next year

The 12th Five-Year Plan of China includes one of the major projects that has endeavored to develop the LED industry, localization of LED equipment and MOCVD equipment. He Jun, deputy director of the Semiconductor Lighting Project Management Office of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China stated that the government has been promoting the localization of MOCVD equipment. The first 48 domestic MOCVD equipments are currently in place and are undergoing adjustment. It is expected that the MOCVD equipment will be ready for the Spring Festival next January. Trial production before.

In 2009, South Korea and Taiwan successively expanded a large number of LED upstream MOCVD machines. The mainland has only followed up in large numbers in the past two years. According to statistics, the mainland began to expand and import 245 units in 2010. By 2011, under the strong subsidy of local governments, 420 units will be added this year. It is estimated that there are a total of 756 units in China.

Jun Jun said that with the government's production trend of the LED industry, the demand for MOCVD will increase. If all of them have been relying on imports for a long time, the cost will remain high. Therefore, it is necessary to promote the localization of MOCVD in this year. The policy also saw a lot of achievements. China's first 48 domestically produced MOCVD machines have now entered the adjustment stage and are expected to be trial-produced before the Chinese New Year in January next year. They expect to start mass production in April next year, with an annual output of 100 units. For the goal.

Yu Jun added, but it is still not enough to expand a large number of MOCVD machines. If plant or manpower cannot be put in place, it will be futile because the operation of the machines is complicated and technicians are hard to find. In order to solve this problem, the next stage is expected to Simplify the development of machine operations to reduce the technical barriers of operators and solve manpower problems.

However, the industry believes that if the backlight market alone, the current global 1200 MOCVD machine is actually almost saturated, the current industry shows an oversupply situation, the future only rely on the lighting market support can see the turning point, if companies continue to blindly continue to invest Faced with the risks, it is estimated that starting from 2012, the new MOCVD machine capacity growth will gradually slow or even grow.