San Jose, CA, February 4, 2003. SEMI has announced a "call for innovators" to participate in the first-ever SEMICON West Technology Innovation Showcase, to be held in conjunction with SEMICON West 2003 this July. The Innovation Showcase has been designed to highlight innovative companies, inventors and entrepreneurs and to help bring their innovations to a broader audience of semiconductor manufacturers, suppliers and investors.

The one-day event will be held Monday, July 14, from 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. at the Moscone Convention Center in conjunction with the Wafer Processing segment of SEMICON West 2003 in San Francisco.

SEMI is encouraging participation by individual inventors, small companies and start-ups, academia, and research institutions as well as large companies. Innovations can include new software, processes, service, equipment or materials used by the semiconductor or related industries including MEMS and nano-technology. Innovations must be novel to the semiconductor field, provide practical solutions to real problems in the semiconductor or related industries, have data validating the innovation and shall not be a fully released product within the semiconductor industry (innovations may be fully released within another industry).

A panel of industry experts will review applications and select innovations based on technical merit and on the relevance and significance to the semiconductor industry. Selected presenters will each be allotted time for a 15-minute presentation and 10-minute Q&A session. Each showcase innovator will also be given a 25 square foot decorated booth space to exhibit their innovation.

The deadline to submit applications for the SEMICON West 2003 Technology Innovation Showcase is March 15, 2003. For more information, applications and for a complete list of rules and requirements, visit www.semi.org .

Optical Manufacturing

Fri Jan 31 08:22:00 CST 2003