# Electrical equipment and Silicon

Electrical equipment depends on silicon.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/electrical-equipment-and-silicon/

[Electrical equipment](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/electrical_equipment/) (industry) and [Silicon](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/silicon/) (commodity): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Industry input

*Physical flow · Criticality 5 of 5 · Silicon → Electrical equipment*

2 of the enterprise types in Electrical equipment depend on silicon; for the most dependent, it rates 5 out of 5 on criticality.

- **2** enterprise types depend on it
- **5 of 5** highest criticality

Enterprise types that depend on it:

- Electrical steel (CRGO and CRNO) producers: about 3% alloy content (criticality 5 of 5)
- Power semiconductor and electronic component suppliers: wafers (criticality 4 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.