Semiconductor Chemicals

Chip making uses seven groups of chemicals. Together they are worth more than US$20 billion in 2026, out of a US$48.9 billion wafer-fab materials market. Electronic gases (US$6.8 bn) and wet chemicals (US$4.1 bn) are the biggest by volume. Photoresist plus its ancillary materials (US$6.9 bn) is the hardest to make and the most protected.