According to the newest market evaluation released by SEMI (Global Semiconductor Equipment and Material Industry association), global semiconductor material market has reached 42.393 billion US dollars scale in 2007, grown by 14% compared to the year 2006. As Taiwan is the most centralized district for 12-inch DRAM fabs as well as the leading wafer and packaging foundry centre worldwidely, it has grown to be the global second largest semiconductor material market, and meanwhile to become the second largest reclaim wafer market globally.

According to the statistics by SIA (Semiconductor Industry Association), the yearly growth rate for the whole global semiconductor market is only 3% and the number has maintained between 3% and 7% during the period of 2000-2007, showing that the whole market growth is slow. However, in the semiconductor material market, the situation is quite different. Global semiconductor material market had maintained substantial growth for four years in succession. Last year, the growth rate reached 14%, with forepart wafer process material grows by 17%, and packaging material grows by 9% respectively.

With solid wafer manufacturing and packaging market foundation, Japan has become the largest semiconductor material market in 2007 with a market share of 22%. Taiwan became the second.