Something is emerging at SEMICON West this year, July 14-16, 2009, at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. It’s Extreme Electronics, focusing on MEMS, high brightness LEDs and solid state lighting, nanotechnology, and printed and flexible electronics. Market analysts, technologists, and executives from leading companies driving commercialization of these emerging technologies will provide updates on current market trends, technology highlights, product status, and the materials and process technologies needed to successfully ramp these products to volume production.
A section of Moscone’s North Hall is being devoted to Extreme Electronics. There will be company exhibits and an Extreme Electronics technology stage featuring a series of mini-conferences on emerging market opportunities. A networking session will follow each conference session, and online and offline networking opportunities will be available at the show and throughout the year. A complete Extreme Electronics conference program can be found at the SEMICON West website, but here are the highlights of each session.
Opportunities in MEMS
In the MEMS field, demand grows for devices that integrate new capabilities into the chip package in applications ranging from camera modules to tunable cell phone switches, energy harvesting sensor networks to biomedical diagnostics. Jean-Christophe Eloy, president and CEO of Yole D