Semiconductor material news update: Entegris, ShinEtsu, Globalwafers

The Leading vendors in the semiconductor manufacturing material industry benefiting from the growing demand in semiconductor chips investing into acquisitions, technology innovation and new manufacturing plants. Along with the demand for basic silicon semiconductor material, the demand for compound semiconductor materials, metals and alloys, and processing chemicals is growing. Below are the some of the latest happenings in this industry: Entegris has completed its acquisition of CMC Materials, an expert in planarisation solutions. Entegris acquired CMC paying $6.5 billion. The company said in its release it will operate in four divisions. The four divisions named by Entegris are: Microcontamination Control (MC), will continue to include the Liquid Microcontamination Control, Gas Microcontamination Control and New Markets business units; Specialty Chemicals and Engineered Materials (SCEM), will include Entegris’ Advanced Deposition Materials, Specialty Chemicals, Specialty Materials and Gases and Surface Prep and Integration business units (all of which were part of the SCEM division). It will also include CMC Materials’ International Test Solutions (ITS), as well as Performance Materials operations, Pipeline and Industrial Materials (PIM) and QED; Advanced Materials Handling (AMH), will continue to include Wafer Handling, Fluid Handling, Sensing and Control...