Samsung Tests Non-Japan HF

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(1) 陈芳, 滨化集团电子级氢氟酸成功打入韩国市场. 上海证券报·中国证券网, July 16, 2019.
http://news.cnstock.com/news,bwkx-201907-4402136.htm

Note:
(a) 楚良一 (东京), 韩国从中国获得遭日本的限制的半导体材料. 法广, July 17, 2019 republishes the above report.
(b)
(i) 第一财经 made a similar report yesterday based on the same 电子化工新材料产业联盟官方微信 (or 微信公众号).
(ii) Also in the news yesterday: "该集团 [滨化] 引进台湾技术新建6000吨/年电子级氢氟酸装置于2018年7月实现量产。"  This prompts my doubt: If 滨化’s technology is from Taiwan, how come Taiwan does not get the order?

(2) Kenichi Yamada 山田 賢一, Samsung Tests Non-Japan Materials as Asia Trade War Deepens; Top chipmaker searches for new suppliers in China, Taiwan and at home. Nikkei Asian Review, July 17, 2019.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotligh ... a-trade-war-deepens
("Samsung Electronics is testing hydrogen fluoride * * * Production of cutting-edge semiconductors requires gas that is 99.999% pure * * * 'The technology barrier for advanced IT materials is high' * * * Samsung now buys high-purity hydrogen fluoride from Japan's Stella Chemifa [Corp ステラケミファ株式会社; 1916- ; founder 橋本治三郎; based in Osaka; 2997 adopted the current name (no explanation); "フッ素化合物を中心とする高純度薬品" ja.wikipedia.org, my translation: (make) highly pure chemicals centering on fluorine], Morita Chemical Industries [Co, Ltd 森田化学工業; founded in 1917 by 森田鎌三; based in Osaka] and Shōwa Denkō" 昭和電工株式会社 (formed in 1939 through merger; based in Tokyo) )