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Translation - English 1. The current industry status and development
According to the final statistical results of the international research and advisory firm Gartner, the 2013 total worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment expenditures amounted to US$ 33.8 billion, representing a decline of 11.5% over that of 2012. The demands for wafer-level manufacturing equipment outperformed the market, with lithography and related manufacturing processes performing strongest while the back-end manufacturing sector, on the other hand, underperformed the market average. Looking at 2013, wafer-level manufacturing outperformed the market. And compared to the sectors in dry etching, lithography, process automation, and deposition areas, it appeared to be relatively stronger. The expenditures were very selective and were focused on upgrading and purchasing the latest technology while the production capacity didn't increase much. Logic expenditures were concentrated on the 20 nm / 14 nm manufacturing process preparation. Only a small numbers of sub-areas appeared to have grown. The most obvious is the stepper motors in the lithography field, non-tube chemical vapor deposition (non-tube CVD), conductor etch, rapid thermal processing and thermal furnace, and some other areas of manufacturing process controls (such as wafer inspections, defect examinations and classifications).
However, under the influence of low- and medium-cost smart phone demands of countries like China, India, and other newly emerging markets like the Southeast Asian countries, and other factors like the improved global economic visibility, Gartner expects the 2014 semiconductor industry's capital expenditures will return to its growth momentum, and the capital expenditures will increase by 14.1%. In addition to encouraging chip developers to intensify research and development to come up with more cost-effective solutions due to market demands, it will also set in motion the investment boom in the new technologies of 16/14 nm Fin Field Effect Transistors (FinFET) and three-dimensional (3D) flash memory. And that is why Gartner has forecasted that the semiconductor equipment spending will grow by another 13.8% in 2015.
When the semiconductor advanced manufacturing processes are undergoing evolution, the semiconductor manufacturing companies have to shoulder several times more than ever before the research and development costs as well as the manufacturing plant construction costs. In addition, with an objective condition of the external environment, the maturity of the semiconductor materials, equipment, and the overall market are also the challenges that have to be faced in the continuing scaling down or miniaturization of the manufacturing processes. How to master more advanced manufacturing process technologies and increasing the manufacturing yield than the competitors have always been a core issue of concern for many in the semiconductor industry. In order to control the manufacturing process quality and yield, the wafer fabrication (FAB) manufacturers use inspection tools to first detect any wafer defects and then let the post processing equipment do the re-testing and classification. The main defect inspection techniques are dark field, bright field and e-beam. Before the generation of nanometer technology, optical technology was used to perform defect inspections. With the use of new semiconductor materials, new manufacturing process technologies and the miniaturization trend of semiconductor components, the conventional optical inspection technologies (dark field, bright field) started experiencing bottleneck when it entered the 90 nm generation. Therefore, starting from below the 90 nm geometry, optical inspection technology and the new technology of e-beam inspection started to compete with each other. For the 28 nm geometry, the clear winner was the e-beam technology. Currently, optical inspection tools still dominate the wafer defect inspection in the production line of the wafer fab manufacturers but with the advent of nanotechnology generation, and the continuing miniaturization of the semiconductor advanced manufacturing processes, the future of e-beam inspection tools will have a very good growth potential.
For the company to continue maintaining its leading position in the market and improve our product profitability, it will adopt the following strategies:
A. Provide fast and immediate highly efficient after-sales maintenance services in order to firmly secure our existing customer base.
As the semiconductor front-end inspection tools are a high capital expenditure, rapid response to the customer needs, working closely with the customers to build up a close cooperative relationship, and designing tools that meet the needs of the customers in order to fully meet the different needs of each customer, have become very important. The company has set up 100% wholly owned subsidiary companies in Japan and Korea known respectively as HMI Japan and HMI Korea. For the above-mentioned subsidiary companies, aside from its functions of selling and distributing our semiconductor inspection tools products, they are also involved in after-sales maintenance services in order to provide a fast and immediate highly efficient after-sales services to our customers in the different areas as well as maintaining a long term and stable relationships with our existing customers.
B. Continuous R & D and innovation, develop new customers and improve product profitability
The manufacturing processes of the semiconductor industry are progressing rapidly, the needed technologies are also continuously improving and diversifying, and it is only by continuous innovation in technology that you cannot be eliminated or be left behind by the market. The company's technical team has a deep knowledge of the semiconductor industry, highly skilled and experience, and has successfully developed nearly one hundred patented innovative products at home and abroad. We were also verified and accredited by numerous world-class manufacturing plants and we continue to receive direct inquiries from our sales customers to cooperate and help develop their related electron beam inspection systems. The company has good key components and developed technologies, and together with our foresight to grasp its keen insight into the future development of the industry, and continuing research, development and innovative technologies, we are able to introduce new products with high competitiveness. We expect our products will have compatibility with different devices and the extents of our support will continue to gain the acceptance and recognition from our customers and the industry. And therefore, resulting in expanding our customer base and increasing our product profitability.
C. Cooperate with the government industrial promotion policy
The Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs is actively promoting the localization of the semiconductor industry facilities. Localization of the equipment helps the wafer fabrication factories reduce their manufacturing cost, shorten the delivery lead time, and improve the market share of the Taiwan branded equipment suppliers. The company's business operation is in line with the government vision to accelerate the industrial upgrading and localization of the Taiwan process equipment industry and therefore, the government's drive to promote related industry assistance program will contribute to the future development of the company. The company will continue to support the government's industrial promotion strategy and expand the localization of our products and our market share in the global market for semiconductor equipment.
In summary, because the products of the company belong to the front-end product development manufacturing process where it is required, it is not very much affected by the economic business cycle. Coupled with the semiconductor manufacturers' continuing development of high level manufacturing processes, the future development of the company for the next coming two years shall continue to have high growth and the industry prospects for the future shall still be considered adequate.
Chinese to English: The Study of the Taiwan Industrial Power Outage Cost Estimate and Its Application in the Electricity Price Classification Program General field: Tech/Engineering Detailed field: Energy / Power Generation
Source text - Chinese 「我國產業缺電成本估計及其應用於分級電價規劃方案之研究」
Translation - English The Study of the Taiwan Industrial Power Outage Cost Estimate and Its Application in the Electricity Price Classification Program
Abstract
Electricity is one of the elements essential to economic development and due to the successful transformation of Taiwan's industrial structure that ensured and sustained its economic growth, it brought along the rapid growth of the industry's demand for electricity. In Taiwan's electricity consumption structure, more than 70% of the electricity are for industrial use. Once there is a power shortage, it will affect Taiwan's industry and economy as well as social security. In addition, in order to enhance the electric power industry's operational efficiency, to promote electricity market diversification and fair competition, to ensure a stable supply of electricity, and to increase the welfare of the people's livelihood, it is necessary that market competition mechanism should be introduced to the electric power market as the liberalization of the electric power industry has become a global trend.
Therefore, this project aims to carry out the study of the Taiwan industrial power outage cost estimate and its application in the electricity price classification program and to understand the meanings and concepts of electricity price classification. And to consider how electricity price classifications were being implemented in other countries and to explore the feasibility of implementing the electricity price classification in our country. Moreover, we will explore the power outage cost patterns, estimation methods and policy application significance, explain how it is to be applied in the electricity price classification system and to measure the estimated cost of our industrial power outage cost. Through a questionnaire survey method, analyse the subject and scope of implementation of our electricity pricing classification. And finally, develop a tiered pricing system program plan, and provide specific recommendations to promote the practice in a demonstration area so that it can be used as a basis for the decision makers.
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