A San Francisco State of Mind For the first time since 1996, the entire Semicon West trade show takes over San Francisco's newly expanded Moscone Center. With the opening of the West Hall, the final-manufacturing companies rejoin their wafer processing colleagues after years of separation in San Jose. The newly reconstituted event takes place Tuesday through Thursday, July 12–14, with a full agenda of conferences, standards meetings, and workshops taking place over the course of the week. SEMI expects some 1400 exhibitors from 25 countries occupying 3500 booths this year, with attendance in the neighborhood of 50,000. Among the highlights are a series of "Voices of the Industry" keynotes, featuring such luminaries as Tim Eckersley, Nokia's senior vp of customer and market operations (Tuesday); Bernie Meyerson, an IBM fellow and vp/chief technologist in Big Blue's systems and
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