SEMICON Taiwan 2025 to break record in number of exhibitors, visitors: organizer

Taipei, Sept. 6 (CNA) SEMICON Taiwan 2025, which will open on Wednesday, will see a new high in the number of exhibitors and visitors from around the world, according to its organizer SEMI, which has described the annual event as the "Olympics of the semiconductor industry."

SEMI, which represents companies in the electronics manufacturing and design supply chain and touts the annual exhibition as the most influential semiconductor trade show in the world, said more than 1,200 enterprises from 56 countries will showcase their innovations in over 4,100 booths, and that the event could attract 100,000 visitors.

According to the organizer, the 2025 event will have 17 national pavilions, also a new high, with Canada, Costa Rica, Lithuania, Sweden and Vietnam to open their own pavilion for the first time.

On Friday, France's representative to Taiwan, Franck Paris, said the French pavilion -- "Choose France" -- will be the largest ever, featuring at least 15 companies.

● France to showcase largest-ever pavilion at SEMICON Taiwan 2025

SEMI said this year's exhibition, which will run through Friday at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, will focus on artificial intelligence, automotive electronics and robotics, and will cover a wide range of semiconductor technologies such as AI chips, advanced IC assembly and testing services, as well as fan-out panel-level packaging (FOPLP), 3DICs, chiplets, heterogeneous integration, quantum computing and high bandwidth memory (HBM).

SEMICON Taiwan will also hold several forums to strengthen international exchanges in the semiconductor industry, according to the organizer. The forums include the Taiwan-Poland business forum, the South Korea-Taiwan semiconductor supply chain cooperation forum, the Taiwan-Japan tech summit, and the Taiwan-India semiconductor forum.

In addition, a CEO summit will be convened on Wednesday with IC packaging and testing services provider ASE Technology Holding Co. CEO Tien Wu (吳田玉) and contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Senior Vice President Cliff Hou (侯永清) to serve as moderators, SEMI said.

The summit will be attended by U.S.-based chip designer Tenstorrent's CEO Jim Keller and Germany-headquartered semiconductor giant Infineon Technologies AG's CEO Jochen Hanebeck. They will discuss how Taiwan will be able to maintain its semiconductor technology lead from international perspectives, SEMI added.

According to SEMI, Keller served two years as senior vice president of Intel's Silicon Engineering Group and held roles as Tesla's vice president of autopilot and low voltage hardware, in addition to having served as corporate vice president and chief cores architect at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

The organizer said executives from three top memory chip suppliers -- Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. of South Korea, as well as U.S.-based Micron Technology, Inc. -- will attend the 2025 event.

SEMI said it will partner with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute to hold a forum with representatives from Japan, Europe and the United States to discuss the restructuring of the global semiconductor supply chain at a time of geopolitical unease.