Tokyo, Japan. SEMI has announced the lineup of speakers for SEMICON Japan’s keynote stage SuperTHEATER, which focuses on key market and technology challenges and developments and their impact on the semiconductor supply chain. SEMICON Japan 2015, the largest exhibition in Japan for semiconductor manufacturing and related processing technology, will take place at Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo on December 16-18.
Japan’s semiconductor industry capital expenditure rebounded in 2014 and this year 13% growth is forecast for equipment spending. For front-end equipment, a 33% increase is expected in Japan this year according to the recent SEMI World Fab Forecast report. Drivers for the increased investment are NAND flash, CMOS sensors, power semiconductors, and automotive semiconductors.
Attendees at SEMICON Japan will explore the key technologies and business models necessary to grow in the coming years. The SuperTHEATER will offer nine keynote forums, all with simultaneous English-Japanese translation, with global top executives. Opening Keynote presenters are
- Masami Yamamoto, chairman and representative director, Fujitsu;
- Amur S. Lakshminarayanan, president and CEO, Tata Consultancy Services Japan; and
- Masaya Mori, executive officer and representative, Rakuten Institute of Technology.
The Semiconductor Executive Forum will feature executives from Micron Technologies, Renesas Electronics, and Sony. The SEMI Market Forum will offer presentations from IHS Global, VLSI Research, and SEMI. An IT Forum will feature presenters from Cisco Japan, Google Japan, Microsoft Japan, and Qualcomm. The Lithography Business Forum and Manufacturing Innovation Forum will showcase speakers from Dai Nippon, KLA-Tencor, Intel, Nomura, Toshiba, and TSMC. The Digital Society Forum will feature speakers from Cisco Japan, Hitachi, and Frost & Sullivan Japan, while the Smart Life & Smart Car Forum will have presenters from IBM Japan, Nissan Motor, and Renesas Electronics. The Grand Finale Panel program will feature top Japanese semiconductor supply chain executives—from Toshiba, Infineon Japan, JSR, Tokyo Electron, Micron Memory Japan, and Megachips.
Platinum sponsors of SEMICON Japan include Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron. Gold sponsors include Advantest, ASE Group, Daihen, Ebara, Hitachi Chemical, Hitachi High-Technologies, JSR, Lam Research, SCREEN Semiconductor Solutions, and Tokyo Seimitsu.
