Comments on the Chinese market: the promotion of domestic equipment into the LED industry priorities

The recent release of the Ministry of industry and information technology "of the high-end equipment manufacturing industry" 12th Five-Year "development plan" put forward, to 2015, high-end equipment manufacturing industry sales revenue of over 6 trillion yuan (the same below), in the equipment manufacturing industry in the proportion increased to 15%; by 2020, sales of high-end equipment manufacturing industry in the equipment manufacturing industry accounted for more than 25%. Ministry of science and Technology issued the semiconductor lighting industry in 12th Five-Year plan also proposed that by 2015, large-scale MOCVD equipment, key raw materials will be achieved localization.

MOCVD is called the organic metal chemical vapor deposition equipment, is the core equipment of LED epitaxial chip manufacturing. This equipment has long been the two largest companies in Europe and America (Germany AIXTRON and the United States VEECO) monopoly. MOCVD equipment is the bottleneck of the development of China's semiconductor lighting industry, but also the industry's pain in the heart". LED industry is mainly dependent on MOCVD devices, which is very similar to the semiconductor industry, are the leading equipment, the mainland to capture the MOCVD device as the LED industry in 12th Five-Year, the top priority in the planning. Data show that as of the end of 2011, the mainland has nearly 20 companies in the development of MOCVD equipment, and some companies have made some progress. In April this year, Nanchang yellow green lighting company, Nanchang University, the national silicon-based LED Engineering Technology Research Center, after years of efforts, the successful introduction of independent intellectual property rights of the production of GaN based MOCVD equipment. This can be said to be the true sense of China's independent research and development can be applied to the production line production equipment. Domestic equipment has advantages, but there are still many problems in the promotion. How to make domestic high-end equipment to achieve online use of zero breakthrough, the need for developers (equipment suppliers), users (epitaxial chip manufacturing enterprises), the relevant government departments in charge of the strong support and cooperation.

Domestic equipment has a cost advantage undoubtedly, but the domestic equipment should do more is by excellent quality, excellent technology, excellent technical support and customer service, and a full set of process solutions to win customers and win market. From the current situation of the MOCVD equipment company announced that the domestic equipment, whether it is technically or price, the advantage has emerged, the biggest problem is the promotion of equipment.

First of all, the market environment is poor, the domestic MOCVD equipment "Born Under A Bad Sign". Two years ago, LED industry investment overheating, enterprises to carry out large-scale investment, big companies currently include Saman, including the equipment operating Elec-Tech, utilization rate of less than 30%. Digestion of the current capacity of 2 to 3 years, so the next 3 years, the promotion of new equipment is not optimistic about the prospects for the domestic. Secondly, the high cost of equipment key parts procurement. Due to the backwardness of China's basic industries, some key parts and a large number of machining precision parts need to be imported, greatly increasing the cost of domestic equipment. Finally, the Chinese people since the light psychology, do not believe the quality of domestic equipment, but also hinder the promotion of domestic equipment.

Therefore, to speed up the promotion of domestic equipment, domestic equipment for online applications to create a good policy environment, ecological environment has become a priority. In view of the current market environment, you can choose to have the technical strength of the LED chip companies to finance subsidies to encourage their use, try domestic equipment. In terms of tariffs, import and export tariffs on key parts and materials that need to be imported, reduce the cost of domestic equipment manufacturing and ownership, and effectively support the development of domestic high-end equipment. In addition, to overcome the psychological blind faith, MOCVD and other high-end equipment standards improve, dependent on the chip companies of domestic equipment trust. Fortunately, now more and more enterprises have realized that, relying on the purchase of mature technology and equipment will always lag behind one or two generations than others, only to stand on the top of the Pyramid, in order to become a leader and beyond.

A generation of equipment generation technology generation products, foreign companies to use equipment from generation to generation to lead the nose of China's high-tech industry, which is Europe and the United States and other developed countries commonly used tactics and tricks. LED lighting industry is now emerging industries, this industry is expected in the next 5 to 8 years will become a mature industry, the development of high-end equipment Chinese now is not too late. Officials with the cooperation of industry and research, domestic MOCVD devices will be able to achieve online use of zero breakthrough, but also must be able to eliminate China's LED lighting industry, the hearts of pain". Workers want to do good things, we must first of all, only China has mastered the key manufacturing processes and equipment, in order to let the LED lighting industry chain rooted in china.