Air Liquide is responding to Asia’s semiconductor market’s strong demand for large volumes of ultra high purity gases by signing two long-term contracts.
The gas giant has signed a 10-year contract with South Korean Hynix, which has a strong position in the semiconductor market. Air Liquide will provide ultra pure nitrogen through two dedicated on-site generators and one nitrogen liquefier to its new 300 mm fab plant located in Icheon, 40km south of Seoul.
In China, Air Liquide has signed a 15 year carrier gas agreement contract with the Hynix-STMicroelectronics joint-venture at its new manufacturing facility at Wuxi New District, Jiangsu Province, 100 kilometers of Shanghai.
Hynix-STMicroelectronics has started this year in China its first twin fabs which manufacture DRAM and NAND flash memories on 200 mm wafers and 300 mm wafers (the new size which allows more chips to be produced in each wafer).
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