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Overview
Advancing Semiconductor
Semiconductor materials are core to powering the electronics industry, including everything from Mobile Devices to Servers for Big Data. At Merck, we’re the innovation-driven business focused on developing next-generation high tech materials and solutions including Thin Film, Specialty Gases, Planarization, Patterning Solutions and Intermolecular to revolutionize the semiconductor industry and unlock the potential for smaller, faster, and more powerful devices.
We enable the safe and responsible handling of gases and chemicals for electronic manufacturers. We focus on the development and deployment of safe and reliable delivery equipment as well as high-standard delivery services to safely guards the molecule of electronic materials.
Through a series of acquisitions in recent years, Merck today has a unique position in the semiconductor manufacturing industry. Almost every chip in the world uses Merck’s materials. The company participates in all seven critical front and back-end unit operations — doping, patterning, deposition, planarization, etching, cleaning, and back-end packaging. In China, Merck offers more than 150 products to around 100 chip makers across the country, covering their entire wafer fabrication and packaging processes.