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• SCHOTT achieves a strategic milestone in forming a specialized division focused on high-end glass products and services to the semiconductor industry.
• The new division already established strong ties with leading industry players for the adoption of glass-based solutions in IC packaging.
• SCHOTT plans to enhance global production and processing capabilities to ensure speed, reliability, and customer focus.
SCHOTT, the global technology group whose founder Otto Schott invented specialty glass, reaches a strategic milestone in supporting partners in the semiconductor industry. The widespread adoption of generative AI creates unprecedented demand and the need for ever-faster processing speed. Following an action plan, SCHOTT has successfully formed a specialized division to provide tailored solutions, top-tier performance, and reliable supplies for partners in the semiconductors industry that are committed to advancing Moore's Law with new materials.
As we enter the age of generative AI, the semiconductor industry is experiencing unprecedented demand for advanced and intensive computing. Next-generation chips call for more stringent requirements for the material providers regarding performance, thermal management, and electrical isolation, as well as finding solutions to increasing energy consumption.
Glass can play a critical role in future semiconductor architecture concepts and performance from wafer to system. Recently, market leaders have been developing glass-based breakthrough innovations to advance Moore’s Law. Since very early on, SCHOTT has been in exchange with leading industry players and initiated an action plan in 2023. Now, SCHOTT has reached a strategic milestone by successfully forming a specialized division.
Dr. Christian Leirer, an industry expert with 15 years of experience in semiconductors will lead the new organization with his deep understanding of the industries’ needs and challenges.
The organization has established dedicated processes to provide rapid sampling to meet the need for speed. The team is already working on tailor-made glass substrates for key players that will lead the way for the future.
“While we were working to establish the specialized division within the existing SCHOTT structures, the team established a close exchange with industry leaders who were searching for breakthroughs in material science,” Dr. Leirer said. “Now, as we’re moving forward in an even more focused way, we will push hard to broaden our customer base through constant exchange, counseling, and quick adoption of specs and production environments. Together, we aim to fuel the future of semiconductors with specialty glass.”
Beyond IC packaging: A Catalyst for future vision
SCHOTT offers an extensive portfolio of specialty glass solutions that advance the critical infrastructure within the semiconductor value chain. For instance, leading lithography machines, some of the most complex engineering marvels ever made by humanity, rely on SCHOTT’s high-quality flexible light guides and ZERODUR® glass-ceramic to achieve maximum precision. As these lithography machines are used in all global chip foundries and IDMs, nearly all computer chips today encounter specialty glass from SCHOTT.
Unmatched partner to achieve the seemingly impossible
The company’s founder Otto Schott is known as the inventor of specialty glass. Today, SCHOTT offers a wide selection of advanced materials, including specialty glass and glass-ceramics. With headquarters in Germany and a global production network, SCHOTT provides unparalleled manufacturing expertise to support partners in developing industry-leading products and solutions. For example, ultra-thin and flexible glass from SCHOTT (SCHOTT UTG®) is enabling the world’s most advanced foldable phones; CERAN® cooktops have changed kitchens around the world in the home appliances industry; and ZERODUR® glass-ceramics allows the world’s largest telescopes to obtain unprecedented views into distant skies. Now, with the specialized division in place, SCHOTT aims to change data communications by turbocharging the most advanced semiconductors in the world.
About SCHOTT
International technology group SCHOTT (schott.com) produces high-quality components and advanced materials, including specialty glass, glass-ceramics, and polymers. Many SCHOTT products have high-tech applications that push technological boundaries, such as flexible glass in foldable smartphones, glass-ceramic mirror substrates in the world's largest telescopes, and laser glass in nuclear fusion. With their pioneering spirit, SCHOTT’s 17,050 employees in over 30 countries work as partners to industries such as healthcare, home appliances, consumer electronics, semiconductors, optics, astronomy, energy, and aerospace. In fiscal year 2023, SCHOTT generated 2.9 billion euros in sales. In addition to innovation, one of its important corporate goals is sustainability, where it is pursuing climate neutral production by 2030. SCHOTT was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in Mainz, Germany. The company belongs to the Carl Zeiss Foundation, which uses its dividends to promote science.
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