Component
Silicon wafer
Polished semiconductor wafers for logic, microcontrollers, and image sensors, counted as 300 mm wafers. Separate from tonnes of silicon metal.
Criticality
Critical
Unit cost
$250
Quality
80 / 100
US saturation
16.9
Made in US
2,000,000 wafers
Current demand
12,000,000 wafers
US exports
160,000 wafers
Opportunity score
58.9
Domestic vs international supply
Planned US investment, next 5 years
$9B
Expected extra output: 9,000,000 wafers per year
Used by
- Application processor
- Bluetooth SoC
- CMOS image sensor
- DRAM
- Fiber laser source
- IMU sensor
- Lamp driver
- Laser imaging unit
- Microcontroller
- Microphone
- NAND flash
- Photoelectric sensor
- Piezo printhead
- Power inverter
- Power-management IC
- Radio SoC
- Servo motor
- Solid-state RF source
- Thermal printhead
- Timing controller
- Weld inverter
- x86 CPU
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