Industrial gas major Air Liquide has started up a molybdenum manufacturing plant in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, to support semiconductor manufacturers.
The plant will supply customers with Air Liquide’s advanced materials offering, Subleem, which makes it easier to use solid precursors like molybdenum chlorides in advanced 3D-NAND memory, helping improve read and write speeds.
Molybdenum is emerging as a promising replacement for the traditional chip manufacturing material tungsten and aims to help the next generations of advanced memory and logic chips driven by AI applications.
Air Liquide is already supplying Subleem to two early adopters of molybdenum.
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