[Guide]On the occasion of the global chip production capacity, the Car Semiconductor Trinity Factory Japan's Risa Electronics has been stopped from the fire. At present, Toyota is the largest customer of Renesas Electronics and is assessing the changes in its factory fire.

House leaks, lifting in the rain, the global car is short-on-core

Last Friday, a 12-inch chip plant in Japan, the third largest car chip factory, has a fire in a 12-inch chip plant in Rissisa Electronics.

Although the fire is soon being extinguished, Renesa has decided to temporarily discontinue the 12-inch production line.

Renesa CEO Chai Tian Yingli said at the press conference on Sunday that "the Sisa Electronic Semiconductor Plant has recently happened this fire.Will have a big impact on the supply of the automotive industry chip. "

Is the current triggered a fire?

The factory that caused fires is the factory in the Valley N3 Building in Reissaz City. The fire occurred at 2:47 in the morning of Friday, it took five hours to get control.

According to reports, Renesa has 6 semiconductor plants in Japan. This happening is an important factory for the production of car semiconductors in Risa, and is also the main 300mm diameter wafer production plant.

The local alarm personnel preliminarily believe that the cause of this fire is that the electroplating equipment on the first floor of the N3 building is high because the current is too large.

Because the device's outer casing and the electroplating tank are relatively low, it will cause a fire if the current is too large.

The fire has damaged 11 chip makers, as well as a clean room of approximately 5% (600 square meters) on the first floor of the building.

The company said that it is still working to determine the degree of damage to the clean room caused by fire.

The design of clean room is designed to prevent impurities from polluting semiconductors, so fire damage is likely to seriously affect production.

Renesa ranked top ten semiconductor suppliers in the world, and the chips produced were used in the fields of mobile communications, automotive electronics.

Chai Tian Yingli said that "The background of this fire is that we have no surplus semiconductor production."

It is reported that if the semiconductor production process is mixed with dust in the air, there is a possibility of malfunction.

Therefore, the final situation of smoke and flue gas in the clean room will re-start the specific time.

Renesa Electronics Program restarted the production of this chip factory after a month, which will cause economic losses of 17 billion yen ($ 156 million) for one month.

The natural disasters, the biggest customer Toyota will be revised

At the beginning of this year, the Japanese earthquake made Renesa's Narrows were discontinued in nearly half a month.

At that time, the earthquake caused the power supply suspension, but the generator of the factory could not start, which caused the industry to further worry about the shortage of the supply of car semiconductor chips.

Netizens said, "The natural disasters are full."

At present, the factory building in Risa is mass production of cutting-edge products that are handed over from TSMC.

If it is continuously discontinued, the effect on the supply of automotive semiconductor chips may continue to expand.

Renesa is the third largest automotive chip manufacturer in the world. According to Bloomberg supply chain analysis, Toyota Motor Company is one of its largest customers. The 6.6% revenue of Risa comes from Toyota, Rissa last year's revenue is $ 715.7 billion.

Toyota is currently assessing the changes in the fire of the Risa factory.

Due to the shortage of semiconductor supply, Toyota is located in the Czech small bus plant will be suspended for two weeks.

Renesa said that in a 300mm diameter wafer factory in the fire, two-thirds of the chip product belong to the automotive chip.

Car is card neck, global chip price increase "

After the big popularity, due to the strong demand for laptops, tablets and household electronic products leads to the shortage of chip, global automakers have been working hard to operate the assembly line.

The fire of the Renesa chip plant may exacerbate the supply situation that has been very difficult.

In the middle of February, the US Texas has a very cold weather, causing local parking power failure, making the world's largest car chip factory NXP (NXP) two factories.

The world's second largest chip plant Samsung Electronics and Auto Chip Production Fairon also difficult to escape the destiny in the local production base.

Due to the shortage of chip, car manufacturers around the world are closing the assembly line.

At the beginning of the year, Ford Motors, Toyota Motors, Fiat Krysler (FCA) and Nissan cars have said that due to lack of supply of semiconductor components, the car production was cut.

According to the study of Bernstein Research, Independent Asset Research, due to the shortage of automotive chip in 2021, it is expected to reduce the production of 2 million to 4.5 million vehicles.

This is equivalent to nearly 5% of the annual output of global auto since recent decade.

It is estimated that the sales loss of the global automakers earlier this year earlier is approximately $ 61 billion.

Netizens generally believe that this fire house in the Risa factory is obviously "hunger marketing" strategy, to improve their chip prices.

In any case, Renesa is working with car customers and key suppliers to find various ways to reduce the loss of this factory to the automotive industry.