FROM WAFER TO GLOBAL ECOSYSTEM
Semiconductor Supply Chain
Follow the production chain from wafer fabrication through packaging, equipment and materials—and understand where Japan creates global value.
Front-end Manufacturing
How a blank silicon wafer becomes a multilayer semiconductor device through repeated patterning, deposition, etching and process control.
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02Back-end Manufacturing
How fabricated wafers become tested, protected and electrically connected products ready for electronic systems.
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03Semiconductor Equipment
The machines that turn process recipes into repeatable wafer fabrication, packaging and test at production scale.
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04Semiconductor Materials
Why purity, consistency and process qualification make materials an essential and often underestimated layer of chip production.
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05Japan's Role in the Global Semiconductor Supply Chain
How Japan creates influence through equipment, materials, specialty devices, manufacturing clusters and customer industries.
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