Unseen, yet essential: Air Liquide’s role in semiconductors
Published on May 23, 2025
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Semiconductor chips are everywhere in our daily lives: smartphones, computers, cars, home appliances... They enable the systems and products that we use to work, communicate, travel, entertain, harness energy, treat illness, make new scientific discoveries, and more. Air Liquide is the world leading supplier of gases and services to the semiconductor industry. Find out more about our role with our experts in video.
The ultra-pure gases as well as high value-added and tailor-made molecules we provide are essential throughout the chip manufacturing process. Air Liquide's worldwide presence, particularly in the three main semiconductor hubs (Asia, US, Europe) allows the Group to be close to its customers’ chip fabrication plants wherever they are.
From Tokyo, Taiwan and Pennsylvania, our experts tell us more about the Group’s contribution to this booming sector in this video.
Air Liquide is also actively helping its customers in the semiconductor industry to reduce their environmental impact. Whenever it is possible, the Group optimizes the energy consumption of its production units, is committed to increasing the use of renewable electricity and produces the gases supplied to its customers onsite, thus avoiding the emissions linked to road transportation. Thanks to its unique innovation capacity and culture, Air Liquide is also developing innovative and low Global Warming Potential advanced materials that help improve the performance of semiconductor devices while reducing their environmental impact.
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What is the connection between Air Liquide and the smart devices we use in everyday life? These devices all rely on increasingly powerful, miniaturized chips. And behind those tiny essential components, you will find Air Liquide molecules.
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Making a semiconductor chip is a feat of precision. Circuits are etched at the nanometer scale, over a million times smaller than a human hair. Our goal: zero defects.
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Together with our customers, we design tailored precursors — gas, liquid and now solid — to boost chip performance, lower Global Warming Potential and support net zero goals.
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We are deeply committed to delivering essential molecules and advanced materials to chip manufacturers. We are proud to help power the innovations that will shape the next digital revolution.
