Risks and opportunities

• Expand markets in all fields of innovative fields, legacy fields, front-end processes, and back-end processes of semiconductors
• Increase in needs for ultrahigh purification in semiconductor materials
•  Intensifying global competition in the semiconductor industry and increased geopolitical risks
• Expanding role of the semiconductor industry in solving social issues
• Expanding semiconductor market driven by development of the data economy, accompanied by growing geopolitical risks concerning conflict over data hegemony