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Add to Calendar2026-02-11 00:00:002026-02-13 00:00:00SEMICON Korea 2026TRANSFORM TOMORROWThe future of the semiconductor industry starts here.Join us at SEMICON Korea 2026 to shape tomorrow together. HoursFebruary 11, 2026 | 10:00-17:00 (Last entry 16:30)February 12, 2026 | 10:00-17:00 (Last entry 16:30)February 13, 2026 | 10:00-16:00 (Last entry 15:30)VenueCOEX (Hall A, B, C, D, E, Grand Ballroom, Platz and ASEM Ballroom)Westin Seoul ParnasGrand InterContinental Seoul ParnasScale550 Exhibitors, 2409 booths (2025: 501 exhibitors, 2301 booths)Seoul South KoreaSEMI.org[email protected]America/Los_Angelespublic
Artificial intelligence (AI) is scaling at a pace that is reshaping semiconductor roadmaps, data center design, and long-term infrastructure strategy. This promises many economic and social benefits, but this trajectory is now testing energy availability limits and power consumption has become the significant limiter to performance gains. The global “data center gold rush” is already straining energy grids around the world and may slow AI’s progress. To address this formidable challenge, radical efficiency improvement in both performance and energy consumption is needed. This requires radical innovation, not just by individual segments, but by meaningful collaboration that “connects the dots” across the entire system stack.
SEMI, a global electronics industry association serving ~4000 companies, is organizing this workshop under its Smart Data-AI Initiative; together with the city of San Jose. We are uniting the entire AI ecosystem – including devices, materials, packaging, photonics, quantum, architectures and algorithms. This is the fifth workshop in the series. Building on learnings from previous workshops, we are focusing on three high-impact areas – co-optimization of system-technology and hardware-software, and sustainable AI infrastructure operation. The overarching objective is to drive these from discussion to action. Please join leaders and experts from industry and academia in this exciting interactive workshop.
INAUGURAL EVENT FOCUSED ON SMART MANUFACTURING & SMART MOBILITY
Join us for a groundbreaking Midwest conference and tradeshow on April 1-2, 2025, focused on Smart Manufacturing and Smart Mobility with an emphasis on the semiconductor industry! Automotive electronics and smart manufacturing are two of the key end markets on the path to $1T in semiconductor revenue.
A significant amount of both markets is concentrated in the Midwestern United States. SEMIEXPO in the Heartland will bring these two key markets together and provide an opportunity for collaboration and growth.
Smart Manufacturing
The program will focus on the deployment of Industry 4.0 or Smart Manufacturing tools, technologies, and methods for the semiconductors required for this growing market.
Smart Mobility
The program will unite stakeholders in the semiconductors/sensors and mobility ecosystems to identify and address technical issues and supply chain dynamics that are best addressed collectively.
Ways to Participate
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MAKE YOUR MARK AT THE INAUGURAL SEMIEXPO HEARTLAND
Plan Now to Exhibit or Sponsor. Contact— Shane Poblete | +1 202-847-5983 | [email protected]
NEW EVENT!
April 1–2, 2025
Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis, IN
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Add to Calendar2026-04-29 00:00:002026-04-30 00:00:00SEMIEXPO Heartland 2026Indiana Convention Center 100 S Capitol Ave Detroit, MI United StatesSEMI.org[email protected]America/Detroitpublic
America/Detroit
Cancellations received on or before October 4, 2024 will be fully refunded. After this date, only substitutions will be accepted.
Please email your cancellation request to Agnes Cobar at [email protected]. Refunds will not be issued for cancellations (including no-shows) made after October 2. Substitutes are only accepted with written permission from the original registrant.
As AI proliferates rapidly, AI models and datasets are also growing rapidly in size, giving rise to two fundamental challenges. First, this growth far outpaces performance improvement in hardware systems and infrastructure, and second, the energy consumption for AI continues to grow unsustainably.
These challenges are formidable and cannot be solved by one entity or in isolated silos. SEMI (www.semi.org), a global electronics industry association with 3300 member companies, is organizing this workshop under its Smart Data-AI Initiative. We are bringing together experts to discuss the latest innovations in the entire-AI ecosystem – including novel devices, 2D materials, analog computing, advanced packaging, chiplets, photonics, hardware-software co-optimzation and energy-efficient architectures & algorithms for data centers, cloud & edge.
Please join us on March 19th in Milpitas, CA. We will start with an inspiring keynote from Tristan Holtam, GVP, CEO Chief of Staff, Corporate Strategy and Development, Applied Materials, and continue through the day with industry leaders (AMD, Arm, ASE, Google DeepMind, IBM, Intel, Lam Research, Mckinsey, Micron, Nvidia, Qualcomm, SK Hynix); exciting start-ups (Cerebras, LightMatter, Mentium) and leading-edge academic researchers (Stanford U. and U. of California). Together, let us explore collaborative, system-level solutions for sustainable progress in AI systems.
SEMI 673 S. Milpitas Blvd Milpitas, CA95035 United States
8:00 am
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8:30 am
Registration, Coffee/Tea + Pastries
8:30 am
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8:35 am
Welcome
Pushkar Apte, Smart Data-AI Lead and Strategic Technology Advisor, SEMI
8:35 am
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8:45 am
SEMI Perspective
Ajit Manocha, CEO, SEMI
8:45 am
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9:30 am
Accelerating Energy-Efficient Computing
Tristan Holtam, GVP, CEO Chief of Staff, Corporate Strategy and Development, Applied Materials
9:30 am
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10:00 am
Future of Computing Landscape- Opportunities and Challenges
Jim Sexton, Fellow, IBM
10:00 am
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10:15 am
Coffee Break
10:15 am
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11:30 am
Chair/Moderator: Gity Samadi, Senior Director of R&D Programs, SEMI
David Fried, Corporate VP, Lam Research
Eric Pop, Pease-Ye Professor of Electrical Engg., Stanford University
Geoffrey Burr, Distinguished Research Scientist, IBM Research
Saif Islam, Professor, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engg., U. of California, Davis
Ashonita Chavan, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Micron
11:30 am
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11:40 am
SEMI Technology Communities
Melissa Grupen-Shemansky, VP & CTO, SEMI
11:40 am
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12:55 pm
Chair/Moderator: Melissa Grupen-Shemansky, SEMI
Steve Klinger, LightMatter, VP of Product
Jaesik Lee, VP of Package Engineering, SK Hynix
Debendra Das Sharma, Senior Fellow, Intel and Chair of UCIe & CXL Consortium
Boris Vaisband, Asst. Professor, UC Irvine
12:55 pm
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2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
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2:10 pm
Market Overview for AI
Wendy Zhu, McKinsey & Co.
2:10 pm
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2:20 pm
SEMI Smart Data-AI Initiative Overview
Pushkar Apte
2:20 pm
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3:35 pm
Chair/Moderator: Jim Sexton, IBM
Evgeni Gousev, Senior Director, Qualcomm; and Chair, Board of Directors, TinyML Foundation
Mirko Prezioso, CEO, Mentium
Wilfred Gomes, CEO, Mueon
Chloe Jian Ma, Vice President, Arm
3:35 pm
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3:45 pm
Coffee Break
3:45 pm
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5:00 pm
Chair/Moderator: Pushkar Apte, SEMI
JP Fricker, Founder and Chief System Architect, Cerebras
