Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a further shortage of semiconductors

Russia's full -fledged invasion of Ukraine was revealed on the morning of February 24 (US time).One of the first cities that Russian President Vladimir Putin aimed at is Odessa along the Black Sea.

Odessa is the largest port city in Ukraine.And, in fact, it is a city that has a company called Cryoin Engineering, which is not well known, but plays a major role in producing world -global semiconductor production.

Cryoin is a company that manufactures neon gas, a laser power source that engraves patterns in semiconductors.It is also supplied to European countries, Japan, South Korea, China, and Taiwanese companies, but most are shipped to the United States.For this reason, analysts have warned that disturbed Cryoin could affect the world.

According to Cryoin's business development director Larissa Bondreng, the company stopped producing neon and other gas production on the 24th, when the invasion began."We have decided that we should wait for a few days until the situation is clear to ensure everyone's safety," said Bondarenko in the WIRED US version.The facility was not damaged on February 28.

Despite the plan to resume production on the weekend, the danger was still too dangerous when the missile was flying over Odessa.Bondreng, who lives in a car from the site for about 30 minutes, is sleeping in his home basement."Thankfully, we have a basement."

The semiconductor functions as a brain that controls devices inside a variety of products, from mobile phones, laptops, smart homes, and cars.The semiconductor industry has been struggling to catch up with the demand of devices that have grown in pandemic in the first place, and has already suffered from a shortage of semiconductors.

In fact, in 2021, the shortage of semiconductors was limited to the production of almost all major automakers, and companies such as General Motors were forced to stop the entire factory.According to Bloomberg's report, Apple, the world's largest semiconductor purchase company, told the manufacturing partner that in October 2001, the number of iPhone productions in the same year would be reduced by 10 million from the plan due to shortage of semiconductors.

However, the invasion of Ukraine in Russia is coming here, stimulating the industry.He is afraid that the price of Neon Gas has risen by 600 % in the annexation of the Crimea, and the shortage of semiconductors may be serious.In fact, the U.S. government and the Japanese government are in a hurry to prevent the situation in 14 years at the end of February, pressing the semiconductor industry to find a substitute source of neon gas before being too late.

Ukraine is only one of the chalk points in the world's semiconductor industry (a place where only one point is reduced to the whole).TechCet, a semiconductor market research company in the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers such as Intel and Samsung, explains in the WIRED version that about half of the world's neongas is supplied from Ukraine.。

Ukraine's neon industry was born to make effective use of gas generated as a by -product of Russian steel production.

"In Russia, steel companies have equipment to collect gas, and they are sold as rough gases with gas in containers," said TechCet's president and highest executive officer Rita Sheong -Roy.Say."Someone must purify it and remove other substances. Cryoin appears there."