Official Company Background
By 1970 the semiconductor industry had been building momentum for at least a decade. Yet the companies supplying the equipment and materials that made possible the miniature wonders known as “chips” were all but invisible. The newly emerging industry was tiny then – only a few million dollars in global revenues – but a handful of visionary leaders came together to create a forum to shine the spotlight on equipment and materials suppliers. The resulting organization was called Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Institute, but was best known as SEMI.
Challenges One of the early challenges facing the budding industry was marketplace visibility. The new SEMI organization quickly answered the challenge with the introduction of the first SEMICON exposition. Appealing for its festive energy at the county fairgrounds in San Mateo, California, SEMICON was hugely successful.
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