SEMI® Global Update - April 2013 IN THIS ISSUE   Russia is On the Move Southeast Asia Sees Improving Semiconductor Investment into 2014 Equipment & Materials Market/Outlook Growing MEMS Markets by Rethinking Manufacturing Speeding 3D-IC: Update on SEMI Standards Breakthroughs in LED Packaging Technology New International PV Technology Roadmap Computational Lithography: How does it Keep Moore's Law Alive? EHS White Paper: LSIT and RoHS SEMI Members Push for Immigration Reform Event Calendar WEBINAR April 30 The Convergence of PV Materials, Test and Reliability EUROPE May 24 7th SEMI Brussels Forum June 5-6 SEMICON Russia June 19-21 Intersolar Europe 2013 ASIA May 7-9 SEMICON Singapore 2013 NORTH AMERICA April 12 SEMI Arizona Breakfast Forum April 25 SEMI Silicon Valley Forecast Luncheon May 1 SEMI Pacific Northwest Breakfast Forum May 10 Last day: SEMICON West FREE registration May 13-16 ASMC 2013 May 21 SEMI Texas Spring Forum May 30 Intellectual Property Protection Courses - Supply Chain Mgmt - Financial Boot Camp For Non-Finan Professionals - Key Semi Acct Selling - Innovation Management - CMOS Process Integ - Transition: 28nm to 22nm Node - Principles of Selling SEMI Award for North America Call for Nominations Due: Aug 30 Advertisements SEMI EUROPE UPDATE Russia is On the Move Russia's plan to revive the industry is shaping up and local as well as foreign companies are preparing themselves for the next cycle of investment. It is imperative for the Russian government that a higher percentage of key components including Microelectronic devices will be locally produced to avoid excessive imports. On another positive note, Russian accession to the WTO reduced import taxes to close to zero by the end of 2012. There is also a noticeable sense of urgency about removing trade barriers, especially for high-tech products. Russian companies are looking for alliances to catch up with Western companies as quickly as possible. (more) Beat Mueller www.semi.org/europe www.pvgroup.org Advertisement The New GF135 PTI MFC for Increased Wafer Yield Brooks Instrument's pressure transient insensitive MFC provides real-time, integrated rate-of-decay flow measurement. It verifies accuracy, checks valve leak-by and monitors sensor drift without stopping production. The result is improved uptime. Read more Southeast Asia Sees Improving Semiconductor Investment into 2014 By Clark Tseng, SEMI Industry Research & Statistics The industry started out quite strong in 2012 but declined in the second half of the year. For the SE Asia region, capital equipment investment should pick up in the second half of 2013 followed by a strong recovery in 2014. 2012 Review: Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Market and Outlook By Lara Chamness, SEMI Industry Research & Statistics 2012 started out quite promising, but ended up with decreased bookings, billings, and shipment activity. Semiconductor revenues declined, along with new equipment and semiconductor materials markets. Growing MEMS Markets by Rethinking Manufacturing By Paula Doe, SEMI Leading MEMS technologists at the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center recently argued that enabling big future growth of sensors would require disruptive lower-cost manufacturing technologies. Advertisement FREE Annual Subscription for You EE-Evaluation Engineering provides the latest news, in-depth technical information, and products for electronic test engineers in design, development, and manufacturing. Subscribe today for one free year of the EE print or digital edition. Speeding 3D-IC to Commercialization: Update on SEMI Standards By James Amano, SEMI International Standards The industry is poised to jump from concept to commercialization with 3-D technologies, but multiple manufacturing challenges must be resolved to move forward. Leading Companies Discuss Breakthroughs in High-Power LED Packaging Technology By SEMI Taiwan Advances in high-power LED packaging technology are significant but many challenges such as heat dissipation, materials and structure, still exist-- hindering use of LEDs for many applications. New Int'l PV Technology Roadmap Updates Path towards Continuous Solar Cost Reduction The 4th edition of ITRPV is now available, focusing on key technology trends in the field of crystalline silicon (c-Si) photovoltaic technology and identifying critical areas for R&D and process improvements. What is Computational Lithography and How does it Keep Moore's Law Alive? By Paul Werbaneth Historically, semiconductor device scaling was enabled by the continuous development and implementation of optical lithography innovations. White Paper: Impact of "LSIT" under EU RoHS EHS white paper recommends criteria so suppliers of semiconductor and PV manufacturing equipment can determine whether their equipment meets the "large-scale" qualification for Large-Scale Stationary Industrial Tools per the European RoHS Directive. SEMI Members Urge Obama and Congress to Enact High-Skilled Immigration Reform More than 100 executives from the technology sector, including SEMI member companies, called on President Obama and Congress to approve legislation this year to reform America's high-skilled immigration system. Thank you for reading this newsletter. We hope that you find SEMI Global Update informative and relevant. Let us know if we can improve the content and quality of SEMI Global Update. Please send your ideas, comments and suggestions to: Beat Mueller Content Manager, SEMI Europe 14, Rue de la Science, 1040 Brussels, Belgium Tel: 32.2.609.5334; Fax: 32.2.416.6448; Email: semieurope@semi.org Website: www.semi.org/europe Subscribe ¦ Unsubscribe Copyright © 2013 SEMI. All rights reserved.