SEMICON Taiwan marks 15th anniversary

A total of 560 exhibitors from 17 countries will participate in the exhibition, occupying 1,150 booths, in which over 163 exhibitors will be showcasing their new products.

The host country has been the center of the semiconductor industry in 2010. According to the 2010 mid-year edition of the SEMI Capital Equipment Forecast, Taiwan accounted for the lion's share of the global semiconductor equipment market; experiencing rapid growth in all regions in 2010. The island is home to the world's largest semiconductor equipment market, occupying US$9.18 billion of the US$32.5 billion in global sales forecasted.

In the highlight of yesterday's press conference, a panel of executives from some of the industry's main players discussed how innovative collaboration can be the key of for technology advancement. Giuseppe Izzo, STMicroelectronics' regional vice president of greater China and South Asia, pointed out that mobility will be an important trend for the semiconductor industry, leading to the need for ever-smaller CPUs, GPUs and APs in mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers, more powerful telecommunication networks, power supply with higher sufficiency, etc. Innovations in semiconductor applications in other fields such as cloud computing, LEDs, bio-medical devices and data security will also be important to the industry, Izzo said.

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