Industry Connection
-- Semiconductor International, 11/1/2000
The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) has made a new document available from the ISO Technical Committee 209. ISO Standard 14644-2, "Cleanrooms and associated controlled environments-Part 2: Specifications for testing and monitoring to prove continued compliance with ISO 14644-1," is part of a series of 11 documents intended to serve the needs of the global contamination control community. IEST serves as secretariat for ISO T/C 209, which developed the paper. The document specifies requirements for proving compliance with ISO standards for airborne particulate cleanliness and reflects the cooperative effort of more than 1000 professionals from 34 nations. Further information is available at www.iest.org.The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has issued a call for papers for the International Test Conference 2001, which is being held Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2001 in Baltimore. The conference theme emphasizes the trade-off decisions being made between investments in automatic test equipment, design for test, and design and test automation tools. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers describing recent work in the field of test and design. The submission deadline is March 16, 2001. Author notification should be received by June 8, 2001, then the manuscript deadline is July 27, 2001. For further information, visit www.itctestweek.org.
Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) has appointed Richard Hill, chairman and CEO of Novellus Systems, and Jerry Coder, president and COO of EKC Technology, to its international board of directors. The SEMI board of directors is composed of industry executives from global semiconductor equipment and materials companies. Hill has been Novellus Systems' chairman since May 1996, and has served as CEO and a member of the board of directors since December 1993. Coder has been with EKC Technology since July 1992, becoming president and CEO in December 1992. Further information is available at www.semi.org.
The Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) has concluded its 2000 Mid-Year Update, which indicates that fabless companies plan to consume 54% more wafers in 2000 than in 1999, compared with earlier forecasts of 39%. Furthermore, the growth will continue in 2001 because the revised wafer demand forecast is now estimated to be 55% higher than in 2000. Other data in the study showed that actual wafer usage for fabless companies in the first six months of 2000 was 3% higher than that forecasted in the original 2000 survey. In addition, respondents revised upwards their demand forecasts for the second half of 2000 by 9%. For 2001, the group raised its forecasts by 13% from what it had predicted in the original 2000 survey. Respondents indicated concerns about adequate wafer supply to meet the demand; such constraints could cause actual wafer consumption to be significantly less than the forecasted demand. Further information is available at www.fsa.org.
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