Equipment Manufacturing Trends: What to expect for More than Moore devices?
Amandine Pizzagalli
Technology & Market Analyst,Equipment & Materials - Semiconductor Manufacturing
Yole Développement
Abstract
The overall semiconductor equipment market is worth several billion dollars. By contrast, lithography equipment for the MTM industry is a small niche representing millions of dollars.However, megatrend markets like fifth generation (5G) wireless technologies, electric vehicles, and advanced mobile devices demand miniaturization and extra functionality. These emerging applications push MTM devices to new levels of complexity, resulting in big investments. As a matter of fact, fabricating the next MTM device generation requires tools with new technical specifications. These are very different to the “More Moore” mainstream semiconductor industry with respect to resolution, overlay, depth of focus (DOF), wafer bow and backside alignment.The new lithography equipment market for MTM devices is mostly driven by Advanced Packaging. This sector accounts today for almost 60% of the overall MTM lithography tools market and will continue dominating this industry with stepper technology. Meanwhile, a high percentage of lithography equipment revenue for MEMS and Sensors, CIS and Power devices comes is generated by retrofitted tools coming from the legacy semiconductor industry. MEMS, Sensors and Power Devices have more relaxed specifications, so that mask aligner tools are sufficient at lower cost. However, megatrend applications are pushing devices with more stringent requirements, with lithographic features below 1µm. This would pave the way towards greater adoption of stepper or disruptive technologies.This presentation will highlight the status of the lithography equipment type used for More than Moore devices along with a more in-depth analysis of technology trends and impacts made by emerging applications.
Biography
Amandine Pizzagalli is a Technology & Market Analyst, Equipment & Materials - Semiconductor Manufacturing, at Yole Développement (Yole). Amandine is part of the development of the Semiconductor & Software division of Yole with the production of reports and custom consulting projects. She is in charge of comprehensive analyses focused on semiconductor equipment, materials and manufacturing processes.Previously, Amandine worked as Process engineer on CVD and ALD processes for semiconductor applications at Air Liquide. Amandine was based in Japan during one year to manage these projects.Amandine graduated from the engineering school, CPE Lyon (France), with a technical expertise in Semiconductor & Nano-Electronics and holds an electronics engineering degree followed by a master’s in semiconductor manufacturing technology from KTH Royal institute of technology (Sweden).She has spoken in numerous international conferences and has authored or co-authored more than 10 papers