Equipment manufacturers also lack cores

Missing core! The delivery time of semiconductor equipment factories has also been extended to 2 years

According to the South Korean media "TheElec", according to figures provided by semiconductor equipment manufacturers and related market research data, as of July 2021, the average delivery time of semiconductor equipment has been as long as 14 months.

In contrast, the average delivery time of semiconductor equipment in 2020 is about 3 to 6 months. In the first quarter of 2021, the time was extended to 10 months. Today, the average delivery time has increased by another 4 months from the first season. Market participants pointed out that the delivery period of some equipment is even as long as 2 years.

The report emphasized that the average delivery time of semiconductor equipment will be prolonged. In addition to the global chip shortage, semiconductor companies have greatly increased capital expenditures to expand production, and further rush to purchase equipment, making production in short supply, and chip shortages have led to semiconductor equipment factories themselves. It is also difficult to buy chips required for semiconductor devices.

Among them, the shortage of field programmable logic gate array (FPGA) is the most serious, which makes the delivery time of semiconductor equipment reach a record high recently.