semiconbay.com Extends Web Site Content Unveiling Two New Technology Centers and Financial Center.

Business Editors

SUNNYVALE, Calif--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2000

semiconbay.com, a leading comprehensive information and business Web site for the semiconductor industry, today announced they have redesigned their semiconductor industry Web site including new logo and look, enhanced functionality, and the addition of financial, diffusion/implantation, and assembly, test & packaging sections.

New site demonstration and e-Commerce platform demonstration functions have been added in order to improve the experience of the first time visitor. The extensive site upgrade is intended to facilitate use, increase the technical content, and provide site users with more personalization tools.

Featured prominently on the home page is a new financial center. Site users can monitor the activity of financial markets and their own personalized stock portfolio using on-line quotes powered by Stockpoint.com. This allows up-to-the-minute review of specific market indices and selected stocks. A comprehensive directory of major investment links provides further in-depth research and analysis of financial information within the center.

Two new content sections, Diffusion/Implantation and Assembly, Packaging & Test, have been added. The new technology centers contain recent and in-depth subject matter specifically focused for that area. Key features for each section include current editorials, featured abstracts, technology news, technical papers, on-line presentations, patent updates, a listing of conferences and seminars with submission deadlines for papers, calendar alerts, and a figure of the week. This comprehensive aggregation of information within each technology center allows users to streamline access to their specific area of interest on the Web site. Updates from recent diffusion or assembly conferences, like the Third International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems, are posted. Real-time forums for each content area are conducted and archived. A discussion thread can also be found within each of these new core technologies. Site users can register opinions on relevant topics that can be viewed and commented on by others.

A Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) has been set up for each subject area. Diffusion TAC members include: Dr. Wei William Lee, Sr. Program Manager, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Taiwan, Dr. Shyam Murarka, Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, Dr. Somnath Nag, Manager, Novellus Corp., USA, Dr. Sudipto Roy, Manager, Chartered Semiconductor, Singapore, and Milind Weling, Manager, Philips Semiconductor, USA. TAC members for Assembly, Test & Packaging include Peter Elenium, Flip Chip Technologies, Dr. Paul S. Ho, Professor, University of Texas, Dr. John Fisher, CTO, ITRI, and Madhayan Swaminathan, Director of Infrastructure, Georgia Institute of Technology.

"One of our key company tenets is to deliver and maintain the most comprehensive technical and business Web site in the semiconductor industry," said Lawrence Wang, founder and president of semiconbay.com. "Leveraging our past success from semiconbay.com's initial six technology centers, we have been able to introduce these two additional technology centers with the same level of in-depth, internationally generated, technical content."

semiconbay.com is a comprehensive hubsite for the semiconductor industry, providing in-depth technical and business information, and a complete, secure, end-to-end e-Commerce platform for customers and suppliers. For more information, visit us at www.semiconbay.com or call Gary Flores at 408/747-5800, email [e-mail].