SDK develops 6 inch InP wafers
SDK is currently supplying four-inch InP wafers to customers inside and outside Japan using its 500-pieces-per-month volume production facility. However, the company started developing six-inch InP wafers last year. As a result, SDK has now successfully developed six-inch InP ingot using its proprietary Hot Wall LEC method for high-quality crystal growth and completed a processing line for the production of six-inch InP mirror wafers.
SDK expects the sample shipment will facilitate the development of markets for large-diameter InP monocrystal mirror wafers to be used in communications equipment. SDK will establish a setup for the production of 500 pieces per month of six-inch InP monocrystal mirror wafers by the end of the third quarter of 2002.
SDK s sales of InP wafers, including epitaxial wafers, are expected to amount to Yen 4 billion in 2003, Yen 8 billion in 2004, and Yen 10 billion in 2005, respectively. In the ongoing medium-term consolidated business plan "Cheetah Project" and the subsequent plan "Sprout Project," SDK puts a strong emphasis on IT markets, allocating a lot of resources to the growing compound semiconductor business.
Showa Denko K.K.
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