Global Experts Expected to Forecast Improved Outlook for Chip Equipment Industry At Semi/ISS Strategy Forum Jan. 11-13.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 1999-- Projections Slated for PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. , Telecommunications, Mergers/Acquisitions, Asia and Europe Call-in Press Conferences at noon-12:30 p.m. Jan. 11, and 12:30-1 p.m. Jan. 12 (U.S. 800/553-5260; From Outside the U.S. 011.612.332.0820); Key Sessions to be Audio Broadcast Over Internet (Schedule To Come); Day-Of-Conference Phone Interviews With Speakers Available; Former U.S. News & World Report U.S. News & World Report Weekly newsmagazine published in Washington, D.C. U.S. News was founded in 1933 by David Lawrence (1888–1973) to cover important domestic events; he founded World Report in 1945 to treat world news. The two magazines were merged in 1948. Writer/Silicon Valley Business Journal Editor Tom York
Tom York (born 1925) is an American television personality, who worked for more than four decades for WBRC-TV in Birmingham, Alabama. to File Daily Stories & Sidebars for SEMI With Copies Available to Reporters Via E-mail/Business Wire Chip equipment sales are expected to turn around in 1999 with a steep upturn in 2000. That's what industry experts are expected to forecast when they convene Jan. 11-13 for the 1999 Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS ISS See Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). ) at Pebble Beach, Calif., on the Monterey Peninsula The Monterey Peninsula in central California comprises the cities of Monterey, Carmel, Pacific Grove, some unincorporated area of Monterey County and the private community of Pebble Beach. . The annual symposium, which attracts semiconductor experts from throughout the world, is sponsored by Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) is a trade organization of manufacturers of equipment and materials used in the fabrication of semiconductor devices such as integrated circuits, transistors, diodes, and thyristors. (SEMI), the global trade association representing the semiconductor industry's capital equipment manufacturers and flat-panel display flat-pan·el display n. A thin lightweight video display used in laptop and notebook computers and employing liquid crystals, electroluminescence, or a similar alternative to cathode-ray tubes. Also called flat screen. makers. The event is viewed as one of the industry's most important as the new year gets underway. "Our industry is a bellwether for the overall technology segment of the world economy," says Stan Myers, president of SEMI. "Rising fortunes among capital equipment companies signal better times ahead for related segments, from chip makers to consumer electronics firms." Close to 200 participants are expected to attend SEMI/ISS, representing such important names in technology as IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Intel Corp., Texas Instruments and Motorola. Speakers scheduled for Monday, Jan. 11, the actual start of the three-day gathering, include: -0-
-- Jean-Philippe Dauvin, group vice president and chief economist
with ST Microelectronics, who will address business conditions in
Europe;
-- Hein van der Zeeuw, senior vice president for unit telecom
terminals at Philips Semiconductors, who will discuss the growing
demand for semiconductors in the telecommunications arena;
-- Mike Kelly, managing director of Broadview Associates, who will
talk about the impact of the Asian economic crisis on the
semiconductor industry; and
-- Matt Powers, partner in the law firm of Weil, Gotschal & Manges,
who will moderate a panel discussion on the outlook for mergers
and acquisitions.
-0- The panel will feature two veterans: Ken Levy, chairman of the board of KLA-Tencor, and Brad Mattson, chief executive office and chairman of Mattson Technology and founder of Novellus Systems. The second day of the symposium will feature the top analysts in the industry: Clark Fuhs, director and principal analyst at Dataquest, Dan Hutcheson, president of VSLI VSLI Very Large Scale Integration Research Inc. and Dan Rose, president of Rose Associates. All three will offer annual or bi-annual forecasts for 1999 and 2000, and all three are expected to be generally positive. This will be good news, said Myers. "The past two years have been difficult ones for the industry, which has seen slow sales in the wake of the Asian economic crisis and overcapacity among semiconductor companies." The third and final day will feature the annual "bulls and bears debate" among market analysts and gurus, including Matthew Grech at Fidelity Management, Chris James at Dawson Samberg and Paul Wick at J & W Seligman. The bulls and bears panel will be moderated by Rick Hill, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. at Novellus Systems Inc. Finally, Mitoshi Shin, vice president and senior analyst for research at Merrill Lynch Japan Inc., will discuss the outlook for makers of dynamic ram access memory, or DRAM, chips. These firms have been hard hit by overcapacity and economic turmoil. Based in Mountain View, SEMI serves more than 2,300 companies participating in the $65 billion semiconductor and flat panel display A thin display screen for computer and TV usage. The first flat panels appeared on laptop computers in the mid-1980s, and the LCD technology became the standard. Stand-alone LCD screens became available for desktop computers in the mid-1990s and exceeded sales of CRTs for the first time equipment and materials markets. SEMI maintains offices in Austin, Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Hsinchu, Moscow, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. Visit SEMI OnLine at www.semi.org. Schedule available on request. Contact Bruce Lewis 800/260-2663 or 925/284-7004 |
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