FOA Q1/2013 Full Membership Meeting will be held at Semi HQ in San Jose, California.
| 12:00 PM | 1:00 PM | DM / SPE / HR Lunch |
| - Vote for board members | ||
| - Approve 2013 budget - SpeedNetworking | ||
| 1:00 PM | 1:15 PM | L.T. Forum Overview |
| 1:15 PM | 1:45 PM | IC Insights analyst Bill McClean on Industry Trend Toward Foundries |
| 1:45 PM | 2:30 PM | IDM Panel - "Biggest challenges to remaining successful over the next 5 years" |
| 2:30 PM | 2:45 PM | Break |
| 2:45 PM | 3:00 PM | Presentation of annual FOA awards |
| 3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | Presentation: "Future Non-Volatile Memory Directions" by Christophe Chevallier - VP of Product Development, NVM/Storage div. of Rambus |
| 3:30 PM | 4:00 PM | Presentation: "Memory Technology: Trend & Challenges" by Dr. Bo Lojek - Principal Scientist, Atmel & Research Prof, Univ. of CO |
| 4:00 PM | 4:15 PM | Audience questions on new memory architectures |
| 4:15 PM | 5:00 PM | Presentation: "Zero Defect: Proactively Achieved" by Samy El-Guebaly, Global Supplier Engineer at Bose |
| 5:00 PM | Close first day | |
| 6:30 PM | 9:30 PM | Social at Gordon Biersch in Downtown San Jose - Sponsored by CS Manufacturing |
| - Industry Trivia Contest | ||
| Thursday, February 7, 2013 | ||
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| 8:00 AM | 8:30 AM | Pre-Forum gathering - Coffee & Danish |
| 8:30 AM | 8:45 AM | Welcome remarks - Denny McGuirk - SEMI |
| 8:45 AM | 9:15 AM | Semico analyst Joanne Itow: "New Volume Devices Using Proven Mature Technologies" |
| 9:15 AM | 9:45 AM | Case study #1: MAX/Philips LumiLEDS - Multi-site Performance Optimization |
| Paul Campbell, MAX, VP Ops EU & Gary Munro, VP WW Ops, LumiLEDS | ||
| 9:45 AM | 10:15 AM | Case study #2: Entrepix/Microchip - CMP Process Improvements |
| Robert Rhoades, CTO of Entrepix | ||
| 10:15 AM | 10:30 AM | Break - collect Questions for BOD panel |
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Presentation by SEMI's Christian Dieseldorff: "Fab Spending & Capacity Forecast" |
| 11:00 AM | 11:30 AM | Case study #3: MEI/Atmel - Maintaining Legacy Wet Process Equipment |
| Ed Jean, Global Sales Mgr. MEI | ||
| 11:30 AM | 12:00 PM | Case study #4: PlasmaTherm/RF Micro - Reducing Clean Intervals on CVD Equipment |
| Robert Mohondro, Plasma-Therm LLC | ||
| 12:00 PM | 1:15 PM | AM Lunch - Hosted by FOA - exhibit table open |
| 1:15 PM | 1:45 PM | FOA BOD takes questions from the audience (submitted in advance) |
| 1:45 PM | 2:15 PM | Case study #5: Fabtime/Anadigics - Line Balance Techniques |
| Jennifer Robinson, FabTime & John Matthews, Anadigics | ||
| 2:15 PM | 2:45 PM | Case study #6: Toppan and BAE Systems - Outsourcing OPC |
| Peter Buck, Toppan | ||
| 2:45 PM | 3:00 PM | Break |
| 3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | Semico analyst Joanne Itow on Used Capital Equipment Trends |
| 3:30 PM | 4:00 PM | Panel discussion lead by Joanne Itow on "Legacy Equipment & Support Issues" |
| 4:00 PM | 4:30 PM | Case study #7: Retronix/TEL and IR - Decommissioning Fab Equipment |
| Stuart Proctor, Retronix | ||
| 4:30 PM | 5:00 PM | Case study #8: Semplastics and Atmel - "Reducing CMP Slurry Consumption and Other Neat Tricks" |
| Bill Easter, Semplastics | ||
| 5:00 PM | 5:15 PM | Open discussion, feedback from Forum attendees |
| 5:15 PM | 5:45 PM | Wrap-up / Clean-up (Send Meeting Survey out) |
| 6:15PM | 8:15PM | Post Forum Social - Hops (Biltmore Hotel) - Vacuum Engineering & Materials - Jon Myers |
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