United Daily News (UDN), one of the primary Taiwanese news groups, recently reported that SiCarrier, a Chinese manufacturer of semiconductor equipment, will debut a new product at an exhibition very soon. SiCarrier is not well known; the company is closely affiliated with tech giant Huawei. The public is curious about whether the company will exhibit 5-nanometer equipment.
SiCarrier is expected to launch a variety of new products, including its epitaxial wafers (EPI), an etching System (ETCH), a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) product, and an Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) tool. Although technology jointly patented by SiCarrier and Huawei last year has attracted attention, the company has not yet solved the problem of integrating supply chains to achieve mass production capacity. The SiCarrier patent helps reduce dependency on high-end exposure machines and may help Huawei and its partners to produce 5-nanometer chips without ASML’s ultraviolet (EUV) exposure equipment.
SiCarrier, established in 2021, has been keeping a low profile. Its official website only mentions that the company belongs to the state-owned Shenzhen Critical Industrial Investment Group. The company describes itself as a “core semiconductor equipment supplier” and states that the company is committed to the development and manufacturing of “advanced semiconductor equipment.”
Source: UDN, March 22, 2025
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