SEMI: the standards-setting organization behind the trade show association

Abstract

Today, demands for cost-effective semiconductor manufacturing create a greater need for standards and for a forum where users and suppliers can reach consensus on precompetitive requirements for future generations of equipment and materials. As global competition intensifies, the need to integrate standardization into a company’s business strategy increases. Strategic standardization, effectively managed, can open new markets, increase sales, reduce trade barriers, and e n s u r e a company’s competitiveness and profitability. Because standards profoundly affect a company’s way of establishing business, their development and use must be sustained at the highest executive level. n 1970, several equipment and materials manufacturers for the semiconductor industry founded Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI). SEMI is an international not-for-profit association for semiconductor and flat panel display equipment and materials suppliers. SEMI’s primary goal is to help members expand global marketing opportunities and improve access to customers and industry, government, and civic leaders. SEMI’s mission is to help its members achieve their common corporate objectives by providing a means to collectively address semiconductor and related technology industry issues. SEMI pursues this mission by: