Aixtron purpose of this thread
„We continue to see growing momentum for silicon carbide as demonstrated by our robust opportunity pipeline and recent customer wins," said Cree CEO Gregg Lowe. "While we continue to navigate a challenging operating environment in the short-term, we continue to invest for the future to support several growth opportunities across multiple sectors."
https://investor.cree.com/news-releases/...d-quarter-fiscal-year-2020
https://seekingalpha.com/article/...nings-call-transcript?part=single
„Now the CapEx acceleration that Neill mentioned earlier is a result of some of our power device customers indicating their production ramp schedules may be earlier than they originally anticipated, which would require more manufacturing than we currently have in the -- more manufacturing capacity than we currently have in the plan.
In the last 60 days, we've met with several important customers and discussed their production time lines, which has led us to make these additional investments now. This is a positive development and speaks to the growing demand for silicon carbide.“
„This is a tremendous opportunity and we're making the necessary investments to expand our capacity with our Mohawk Valley fab. We selected a construction company. Work is underway at the site and we expect the initial production ramp to begin in calendar year 2022. This highly automated facility will allow us to meet the growing demand for silicon carbide technologies with improved efficiency and scale.“
„(...) the applications for silicon carbide are broad across solar, aerospace and defense and industrials and we look forward to expanding our market-leading position as we drive the world's transition from silicon to silicon carbide.“
was passiert denn bei gut news wenn 2 bis 3 millionen gekauft werden ?
ich beobachte schon die ganze zeit, das minimaler ab oder zukauf den kurs relativ stark steigen oder fallen lässt.
was ist eure meinung oder erklärung dazu ?
folgendes will ich gerne noch aus den Cree Zahlen highlighten. Möglicherweise positiv für Aixtron, da selbe Restrictions sicher auch auf der Maschinen Ebene gelten würden... also Aixtron mit Vorteil gegenüber Veeco? Mal sehen, ob wir darüber etwas im Aixtron Q4 call hören.
Hier zu Cree:
CREE also announced that it was denied a license to start shipping again to Huawei, and it was not included in CREE's 2024 target model, the news does remove a potential upside opportunity for CREE.
https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2020/01/...o&yptr=yahoo
Grüße,
Fel
If I am not mistaken Cree produces Wafer and semiconductors on Aixtron reactors I believe.
GaN on Si: for G5 stations
SiC semiconductors (MOSFET) for high voltage applications for example EV:
Cree had a scrap event in Q1 of their fiscal because they went from 100mm SiC to 150mm SiC. It reads as though most of the chips are faulty and had to be thrown away. Bewtween the lines it states human error.
Not sure if a change in supply chain can be executed so quickly that Aixtron would report about it in the Q4 call.
Regards
baggo-mh
I used the Chinese government data to make the previous and this plot. Today (2/3) Chinese government update will come out on 7 pm EST. Pay attention to if the new cases rise faster or slower than the days before.
https://www.bild.de/politik/ausland/...-zu-vertusc-68547910.bild.html
Seitdem ist ein halbes Jahr vergangen ... Glaubst du, dass so langsam Aufträge aus dem Bereich "neue Lieferkette " eingehen ?
unter Verwendung von Aix Anlagen werden Schichte mit Komponenten auf Wafers gesprüht.
Wafers bestehen aus sehr dünnen Folien, die aus gezüchteten Kristallen geschnitten werden.
Wo Cree die Wafers hier holt, schreibt Cree nirgendwo, entweder züchten sie selber und dann schneiden, oder kaufen fertige woanders.
Da es vorgesehen ist oder wird, dass USA keine weiteren Zölle auf chinesische Ware einführen, soll jetzt China im Gegenzug viel mehr aus USA importieren, nicht nur Lebensmitteln sondern auch unter umständen auch andere Ware, die China auch aus EU und z.B. Russland oder anderen Ländern früher eingeführt hat. Wenn ich jetzt diese Gedanken auf Aixtron anwende, dann könnte auch sein, dass auch die Anlagen nach Möglichkeit aus USA (Veeco??) importiert werden sollten, wenn sie nicht schlechter sind, weil solche Präferenzen bestehen?
Also einfacher definiert – die einheimischen chinesischen Unternehmer werden gezwungen US-Amerikanische Ware (Anlagen) zu kaufen… weil die Vorschriften, nach 1 Phase Deal, darauf bestehen.
Besteht die Möglichkeit, dass es soweit kommen könnte?
Was du mit "Schichten auf Wafer gesprüht" beschreibst nennt sich epitaxial growth.
Ignots wachsen und werden dann zu Wafern geschnitten und poliert. Maschinen dazu liefert u.a. PVA Tepla. Aixtron liefert Maschinen für expitaxial growth
Cree liefert Wafer (bare) und beschichtete Wafer u.a. an STMicroelectronics
DURHAM, N.C. and GENEVA, Jan. 7, 2019 — Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) announces that it signed a multi-year agreement to produce and supply its Wolfspeed® silicon carbide (SiC) wafers to STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications. The agreement governs the supply of a quarter billion dollars of Cree’s advanced 150mm silicon carbide bare and epitaxial wafers to STMicroelectronics during this period of extraordinary growth and demand for silicon carbide power devices.
@ BigBen 86: Stell dir vor Cree liefert GaN auf SiC an Huawei z.Bsp.
Jetzt will Huawei das plötzlich eigenständig bewerkstelligen. Sie haben keinerlei Erfahrung in der Herstellung von SiC Wafern und von der Epitaxe auch nicht.
Schnell 2 Maschinen (eine bei PVA Tepla und ein Reaktor bei Aixtron) bestellen und loslegen...... ist nicht, denn es fehlt Personal, Erfahrung und die Maschinen für die Bearbeitung davor und danach.. Cree hat jahrelang gebraucht um SiC zu perfektionieren. Sie sind nicht umsonst Marktführer in diesem Segment. Und selbst dem Marktführer gelingt die Umstellung von 100 auf 150 mm SiC Waferscheiben nicht ohne "scrap event".
Ich frage jetzt mal sehr provokant. Warum kann Hauwei nicht bei STMicroelectronic kaufen statt sich in dieses unbekannte Abenteuer zu stürzen?
Gruß
baggo-mh
https://www.ariva.de/forum/...artet-durch-393226?page=214#jumppos5353
CNBC attributes the market rise to Chinese Government might cut its lending rate. Whatever the reasons might be, to me the status of this epidemic is much more important.
I have picked-up a number of datapoints on the Coronavirus over the last couple of days and my conclusion is: As long as it does not spread much further, it will not have a material effect on the global (or Chinese) economy in FY 2020. Sure, Q1 will be weaker with The Economist estimating 2-3% GDP growth in China in Q1 vs. historically +5-6% but according to DB the FY 2020 effect is likely in the range of 0.2% to 0.3% only.
This is in-line with the statement from various CEO's that I have picked up, for example today Alfa Laval (a Swedish Industrial) mentioned that the effect is that there has been a 1 week closure of the plants (as long as they re-open on Feb 10th which seems to be current consensus) and similar statements made by SKF and Carlsberg (which are the ones I picked up).
Yesterday I listened to a call with a Virologist, just take the following statistics: 99% of all cases are in China, 60% of these in Hubei province, mortality rate seems to be around 2% at current and he expects it to fall as the number of less severe cases rise. This compares to SARS at 10% mortality or MERS at 30%. Outside China there has only been 2 deaths. High income country healthcare systems seem to be well prepared to prevent spreading.
In contrast, I asked a Pharmasist here in Germany today how many people ask her about Corona, Face masks and hand sanitisers: She said, about 50% of the people that came in during the past week.
50% of people compared to 99% of the cases being in China.
Much more hype than reality. My view is that as soon as new infection cases plateau this will be "Schnee von gestern" as we say in Germany.
Regards,
Fel
Leider fallen mir solche Schätze oft erst nach einem starken Anstieg auf ...
This is where the Chinese government publishes the data. Everyday at 7pm EST, which is 1 am German time, the latest daily statistics come out.
In my post #139, the red dots are the mortality rate, which is at around 2.1%, as Fel216 said. Sadly, 64 people died just yesterday. The green dots are the total reported cases. Look for that green curve to begin to show sign of plateau.
Gilead has come out with a experimenting drug that is very promising in curing the corona disease. At this point it is the only known drug that could be implemented rapidly.
https://www.bioworld.com/articles/...e-iii-trial-to-fight-coronavirus
Aixtron's guidance will likely be affected. But if we get positive OVPD guidance, then people will look pass this short term negative almost immediately.