The current financial turmoil has brought tremendous impacts to the global Semiconductor Industry. To the painful astonishment of a great many, the entire value/supply chain of an industry, which has enjoyed steady and healthy growths in the past 50-years, suddenly found itself being plunged into some dire straits of persistent crumbling with a majority of its players being pushed to the rim of extinction. After years of rapid expansions in manufacturing capacities, this chilling effect shall drastically transform the entire ecosystem of the semiconductor industry, calling for more reinforced consolidations, stronger bonds of genetic integrations, tighter controls of engineering innovations and most critical of all, financial operations and flows. Our theme this year therefore will focus on aspects of engineering and business innovations.

With all the prevailing notions of supply/engineering/value chains and many others, e-Manufacturing has been identified to unify the synchronized integration as a critical link. The Symposium will review recent technological advancements to assure alignment with the needs of integrated circuit manufacturers, semiconductor equipment suppliers, software suppliers, sensors and metrology suppliers. Major issues and experiences on AEC/APC/e-Manufacturing/DFM will be discussed in this full-day event, which also includes posters and supplier exhibition. It offers a public arena for the exchange of up-to-date experiences among Asian manufacturers for adoption of recent technological developments.