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Business Overview

The Advanced Products business provides high value-added electronic materials and high-performance components utilizing proprietary materials for the semiconductor, automotive, and electronics industries.

With a product lineup that includes offerings with top-class global market share, it contributes to technological innovation by supporting cutting-edge industries that demand high levels of precision and reliability.

Business Objectives and Strategies

In the Advanced Products business, the Company focuses on semiconductor-related products and xEV (next-generation vehicle) components, which are expected to experience further growth, and aims to provide customers with higher value-added products, thereby building a highly profitable business with sustainable growth.

The Company seeks to create new products and businesses by ensuring a stable supply through expanded production capacity, while further refining and integrating its core competencies. In addition, the Company is promoting market development through cross-functional collaboration among sales, development, and marketing under a key account strategy, and strengthening customer engagement by leveraging digital transformation (DX). Through the provision of high-value-added products, the Company aims to contribute to the realization of a more prosperous society.

Topics

Development of Square Silicon Substrate for Semiconductor Packages
— 600 mm-square rectangular silicon substrate, one of the world's largest —

Square Silicon Substrate for Semiconductor Packages Figure 1: Appearance of square silicon substrate (size example 510 mm x 515 mm x 0.8 mm) (right)(Left: 300 mm-dia. single-crystal silicon wafer (for size comparison))

UV-cured resin using NITRBLACK<sup>®️</sup> UB-2<br> (1cm of thickness) Conceptual diagram of semiconductor chips mounted on carrier substrate

Mitsubishi Materials Corporation ("MMC") has developed a "square silicon substrate," one of the world's largest rectangular-shaped silicon substrates that achieves high flatness and low surface roughness.

Next-generation semiconductor packages that employ chiplet technology, which has been attracting attention in recent years, are becoming increasingly larger, with sizes now up to about 100 mm square. In the semiconductor package manufacturing process, there is a problem with wafer-level packages (WLPs) that use a conventional 300 mm-dia. silicon wafer, etc. as a carrier substrate onto which semiconductor chips are placed. The problem is that packages cannot be efficiently fitted onto the wafer substrate because of the small area and circular shape of the wafer.

To solve this problem, MMC has developed a large-area, rectangular-shaped "square silicon substrate" by combining the casting technology for large silicon ingots, which the MMC Group has developed over many years, with MMC's proprietary processing technology.
This "square silicon substrate" will contribute to improving productivity in the semiconductor field in several ways including its use as a carrier substrate in the semiconductor manufacturing process and its application as an interposer material for semiconductor packages.

History

1982 Commenced production of precision rolled products at the Osaka Smelter & Refinery
1983 Launched the Ceramics Plant
1987 Established MMC Electronics (Thailand) Ltd.
1989 Established the Sanda Plant
1991 Established JEMCO Inc. (predecessors Tohoku Fertilizer Corp. established in 1938, Japan Electronic Metals Corp. established in 1959)
1993 Established MMC Electronics (M) Sdn. Bhd.
2009 JEMCO Inc. changed name to Mitsubishi Materials Electronic Chemicals Co., Ltd.
2010 Made Mitsubishi Cable Industries, Ltd. a wholly owned subsidiary
2012 Established MMC Electronic Materials Taiwan Co., Ltd. (predecessors MMC Electronics Taiwan Co., Ltd., established in 1995 and MUE Materials Taiwan Co., Ltd., established in 2006)
2014 Established MMC Electronics Laos Co., Ltd.
2017 Made LUVATA's SPECIAL PRODUCTS Division a consolidated subsidiary
2020 Made Gotoh MFG Co., Ltd. a wholly owned subsidiary