Sponsors
Platinum Sponsor
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Gold Sponsor
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Silver Sponsors
From Advanced Packaging to 3D Integration. SUSS MicroTec has been at the forefront of companies supporting the advanced packaging industry with dedicated lithography solutions. With the trend leading towards 3D architectures for IC integration and packaging, we support 3D Packaging and 3D Interconnect processes with precision equipment for thick resist and high topography applications, Through-Silicon-Via (TSV) manufacturing, bonding and de-bonding solutions, stacking technologies as well as products for the production of CMOS image sensors.
MEMS and Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing. With a full range of wafer-processing equipment and extensive experience in warped wafer handling solutions, SUSS MicroTec has positioned itself as the leader in high-volume Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) manufacturing. Our equipment is specifically designed to handle non-standard substrates like fragile compound semiconductors and incorporates specialized hardware such as coaters, aligners and bonders optimized for LED manufacturing.
For more information, visit: www.suss.com
ST has a strong focus on delivering solutions that help enrich people’s lives, make society work better, and protect the planet. The Company’s world-class products and technologies serve to:
- enable the convergence of multimedia and communication in smart consumer devices that help people interact anywhere, anytime;
- increase energy efficiency all along the energy chain, from power generation to distribution and consumption;
- provide all aspects of data security and protection;
- and contribute to helping people live longer and better by enabling emerging healthcare and wellness applications.
Bronze Sponsor
Friday Night Dinner Sponsor
Maxim Integrated designs, manufactures, and sells high-performance semiconductor solutions. A leader in analog innovation and integration, Maxim Integrated is unique among semiconductor companies in the range of disparate analog functions we can combine onto a single chip or subsystem. We put analog together in a way that sets our customers apart, and our highly integrated solutions help customers get to market faster with systems that are smaller and consume less power. We reported revenue of approximately $2.4 billion for fiscal 2012.
MEMS Technology Showcase Sponsor
Kionix, Inc., a global MEMS inertial sensor manufacturer based in Ithaca, NY, USA, offers high-performance, low-power accelerometers, gyroscopes, and 6-axis combination sensors plus comprehensive software libraries that support a full range of sensor combinations, operating systems and hardware platforms. Leading consumer, automotive, health and fitness and industrial companies worldwide use Kionix sensors and total system solutions to enable motion-based functionality in their products. Kionix is a wholly owned subsidiary of ROHM Co., Ltd. and is ISO 9001:2008, TS 16949, and ISO 14001: 2004 certified.For more information, visit: www.kionix.com
Elevator Pitch Sponsor
For more information, visit: www.micralyne.com
Panel Sponsor: MEMS & Wireless Sensor Networks
Bosch Sensortec GmbH is a fully owned subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH. It develops and markets micro-mechanical sensors for consumer electronics, mobile phones, safety systems, industrial technology and logistics. The product portfolio includes triaxial geomagnetic and acceleration sensors, triaxial gyroscopes, barometric pressure sensors and a comprehensive software portfolio for various applications. Since its foundation in 2005 Bosch Sensortec emerged as the technology leader in the addressed markets. The Bosch Group has been the global market leader for MEMS sensors since 1998 and has to date sold more than 2 billion MEMS sensors.
Program Sponsor
* executive and engineering recruiting
* marketing and advertising
* intellectual property brokerage
* MEMS and semiconductor equipment brokerage
* market research and intelligence
We were founded in 2003, currently have 28,700+ subscribers worldwide and attract top-level executives, engineers and researchers who are active participants in the MEMS community. For inquiries, please email us at info@memsjournal.com.
For more information, visit: www.memsjournal.com
Post-Dinner Networking Sponsor
For more information, visit: www.coventor.com
"Topic Table" Lunch Sponsor
Okmetic’s products are based on high-tech expertise generating added value for customers, innovative product development and an extremely efficient production process. Okmetic is ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO/TS 16949 certified.
For more information, visit: www.okmetic.com
Friday Networking Lunch Sponsor
Within the last years, Plan Optik - Wafers set the standard for glass wafers of this still young market. In the near future the technologies developed and used by Plan Optik will set new standards in consumer electronics - especially for mobile phones and DVD pickup heads of the newest generation.
Plan Optik is already serving customers in Asia, North America and Europe such as Infineon, Motorola, Samsung, Honeywell, Zeiss and Bosch. Markets Served: MEMS, Semiconductor, Consumer Electronic.
Movea has a global reach, with headquarters in Grenoble, France, a US subsidiary in Silicon Valley, California, as well as technology partners, manufacturing partners and distributors around the world.
For more information, visit: www.movea.com
Wireless Internet Sponsor
Teledyne DALSA Semiconductor is a leading pure-play MEMS Foundry with extensive experience on fabrication and materials science that make manufacturing of MEMS product possible on 150mm /200mm wafers. Teledyne DALSA Semiconductor also offers industry-leading manufacturing capability, design support and custom design services for high voltage CMOS ICs and MEMS micro-mirrors applications.For more information, visit: www.teledynedalsa.com
Break Sponsor
For more information, visit:www.silexmicrosystems.com
Fries Research & Technology GmbH (FRT) offers a comprehensive range of metrological surface measuring systems for the non-destructive investigation of topography, profile, film thickness, roughness, abrasion and many other properties. More than 400 reputable international companies from the automotive, semiconductor, MEMS, optical, photovoltaic and many other industries equip their R&D and production departments with FRT metrology systems.
FRT operates from Bergisch Gladbach, Germany and maintains subsidiaries in China, Switzerland and the United States. Additionally, FRT provides a distribution and service network in the USA, Asia and Europe.
For more information, visit: www.frt-gmbh.de
AEPI, Invest in Grenoble Isere, France, provides complimentary information, introductions and services to assist companies in exploring partnerships and business opportunities in France’s Silicon Valley, Europe’s top center in micro-nanotechnologies and home to STMicro, Movea, Tronics, etc. Ask us about R&D funding via collaborative projects, tax credits, etc.
Working closely with CEA-Leti/Minatec, Minalogic (cluster for micro/nano, and software solutions) Tenerrdis (renewable energy cluster) and LyonBiopole (microfluidics, electronics for health, nanotech for drug delivery, detection, diagnostics ….), AEPI is also a member of the local board of the Semi Europe Grenoble office, and active in the European project Silicon Europe.
For more information, visit: www.grenoble-isere.com/eng/
LETI is the main French R&D center for MEMS, covering the entire chain, from component design to pilot production. LETI designs, manufactures and qualifies all types of microsystems (pressure sensors, inertial sensors, optical sensors, RF MEMS, actuators…).
LETI is active in development and industrial transfer in automotive, consumer, industrial, medical and wireless markets.
Competitive advantages include: design to pilot scale, up-to-date 200mm MEMS line (~8000m²) with continuous (3 shifts, 7 days/week) operation, world-class research environment in Minatec, in Grenoble, extensive experience in industrial transfers, broad patent portfolio.
Leti is an institute of CEA, a French research-and-technology organization with activities in energy, IT, healthcare, defense and security.
For more information, visit: www.leti.fr/
X-FAB MEMS Foundry offers unsurpassed experience, expertise and execution with its high-volume MEMS manufacturing service. The first pure-play MEMS foundry, X-FAB draws on more than 15 years MEMS manufacturing. Operating from five fabs for MEMS and CMOS processes and an ecosystem of manufacturing and design partners, X-FAB is the proven choice for process development and installation, process capability, design support and long-term manufacturing stability. As well as customer specific process installation, X-FAB offers a range of qualified, open-platform processes and designs for key MEMS device types, enabling customers to have the fastest time to market in the foundry industry.
For more information, visit: www.xfab.com
Restroom Sponsor
Video and Photography Sponsor
MCA Public Relations, now in its third decade as a high-tech communications leader, serves all areas of the technology ecosystem on both sides of the B2B and B2C fence. MCA focuses on serving the global semiconductor, flat-panel display, MEMs, embedded electronics, solid state lighting and alternative energy industries. MCA tailors each client program to blend the best of traditional PR and new media strategies to ensure a measurable impact on its clients’ business. With a client base that ranges from innovative startups to established industry leaders, MCA offers a full spectrum of communications programs marked by solid strategy and relentless execution. For more information, visit: www.mcapr.com
Supporting Sponsors
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IHS Electronics & Media provides market, technology and supply chain data, analysis and forecasts at every operational step of the electronics and media value chain from strategy, planning and analysis to product design, market development and supply chain management.
For more information, visit: www.mems-exchange.org
Rock Health is powering the future of the digital health ecosystem, bringing together the brightest minds in health and technology to build better solutions. We support digital health entrepreneurs through a startup accelerator, public events, and open-source research.
For more information, visit www.rockhealth.com
Semico Research is a semiconductor marketing & consulting research company located in Phoenix, Arizona. Semico was founded in 1994 by a group of semiconductor industry experts. We have improved the validity of semiconductor product forecasts via technology roadmaps in end-use markets. Semico offers custom consulting, portfolio packages, individual market research studies, a monthly report featuring the 1 year forward looking Inflection Point Indicator (IPI) and premier industry conferences. Key areas of focus include MEMS, semiconductor manufacturing, IP, design starts, SOC, memory, logic, analog, and an on-line end use market database offering 24/7 access.
Solid State Technology is the leader in covering MEMS, semiconductor, packaging, displays and LEDs manufacturing technology, materials, products and news. For over 50 years, we have delivered the highest caliber content through our free magazine, and we also offer free e-Newsletters, a comprehensive website and an annual conference, The ConFab.
In Solid State Technology Magazine, our MEMS direct e-Newsletter and the MEMS channel on our website (www.solid-state.com/mems), we focus on MEMS manufacturing and packaging challenges and new integration strategies.
Request your FREE subscription at www.solid-state.com/subscribe, and see why electronics manufacturing professionals worldwide trust Solid State Technology.
Yole Développement group has grown to more than 50 associates worldwide covering emerging and disruptive silicon and micro manufacturing markets including MEMS, medical technologies (including Microfluidics and BioMEMS), advanced packaging, compound semiconductors, power electronics, LEDs, and photovoltaics. The group supports companies, investors and R&D organizations worldwide in understanding markets and following technology trends to grow their businesses.