SEMI: Global semiconductor materials market revenue reached a record high of $73.2 billion last year.
TechNews Report
May 13, 2026
Author: Lin Yu-rou
Author: Lin Yu-rou
The Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) released its latest Semiconductor Materials Market Report (MMDS) today (May 13). The global semiconductor materials market revenue is projected to grow by 6.8% year-on-year in 2025, reaching a record high of US$73.2 billion. Both wafer manufacturing materials and packaging materials saw simultaneous growth, reflecting increased process complexity, rising demand for advanced processes, and continued investment in high-performance computing and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) manufacturing.
Benefiting from increased process strength and increasingly stringent lithography requirements, wafer manufacturing materials revenue is projected to grow by 5.4% year-on-year in 2025, reaching US$45.8 billion. Lithography-related materials such as photomasks, photoresists, and ancillaries, as well as wet chemicals, all showed strong double-digit growth.
Packaging materials revenue, on the other hand, is projected to grow by 9.3% year-on-year, reaching US$27.4 billion. Among them, substrates and bonding wire materials saw the most significant increases, primarily driven by rising gold prices boosting wire bonding material prices and continued expansion in demand for advanced substrates.
Taiwan has been the world's largest consumer market for semiconductor materials for the 16th consecutive year, with revenue reaching US$21.7 billion in 2025. China ranks second with US$15.6 billion, both showing double-digit growth; South Korea ranks third with US$11.2 billion. Except for Europe, all regions saw revenue growth in 2025 compared to the previous year, with China and North America showing the highest growth rates among major regional markets.
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