Japanese media reports, China in recent months in response to the U.S. trade war in the U.S. blockade, a large number of second-hand semiconductor equipment, a number of Japanese domestic second-hand operators said that in the recent year, the average price of second-hand semiconductor production equipment rose by nearly 20%.
The Nikkei Chinese website reported that Chinese semiconductor manufacturers have been buying a lot of foreign used semiconductor production equipment in recent months; on the one hand, this is because the Chinese Communist Party is promoting the policy of “localization of semiconductors”, and on the other hand, it is in response to the increase in user demand brought about by the new coronary Epidemic.
The report also points out that the price of lithography equipment has increased to more than three times. The report quoted a person in charge of “Sumitomo Mitsui Finance & Leasing” as saying, “Compared with 2008 after the Lehman crisis, the market rose to more than 10 times”. “Hitachi Capital” (Hitachi Capital) pointed out that “the price of used equipment that can be purchased quickly is even higher than the latest equipment,” and another used company said that “equipment that was completely worthless a few years ago can now be purchased. Another used company said, “Equipment that was completely worthless a few years ago can now be sold for 100 million yen ($937,000).
Nikkei.com also interviewed a person in charge of “Mitsubishi UFJ Leasing”. The unnamed director said: “90% of the used equipment seems to be flowing to China”.
The U.S. has restricted the export of cutting-edge semiconductor production technology to China in recent months, and the affected Chinese companies seem to be purchasing previous-generation equipment to cope with the U.S. blockade.
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