Taipei: SEMICON Taiwan 2025, set to open on Wednesday, is poised to achieve a new milestone in the semiconductor industry with unprecedented participation from exhibitors and visitors worldwide, as announced by its organizer, SEMI. This annual event has been likened to the "Olympics of the semiconductor industry" by SEMI, which represents companies across the electronics manufacturing and design supply chain.
According to Focus Taiwan, the exhibition is anticipated to host more than 1,200 enterprises from 56 countries, showcasing their technological advancements across over 4,100 booths. The event is expected to draw approximately 100,000 visitors. Notably, the 2025 edition will feature 17 national pavilions, a record number, with countries such as Canada, Costa Rica, Lithuania, Sweden, and Vietnam debuting their national pavilions.
On Friday, Franck Paris, France's representative to Taiwan, highlighted that the French pavilion, branded "Choose France," will be the largest to date, comprising at least 15 participating companies. SEMI noted that this year's exhibition, running through Friday at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, will spotlight sectors such as artificial intelligence, automotive electronics, and robotics. The showcase will cover a spectrum of semiconductor technologies, including AI chips, advanced IC assembly and testing services, fan-out panel-level packaging (FOPLP), 3DICs, chiplets, heterogeneous integration, quantum computing, and high bandwidth memory (HBM).
The event will also feature multiple forums to bolster international collaboration within the semiconductor industry, as stated by SEMI. These 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.
Additionally, a CEO summit is scheduled for Wednesday, moderated by ASE Technology Holding Co. CEO Tien Wu and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Senior Vice President Cliff Hou. The summit will include discussions led by U.S.-based chip designer Tenstorrent's CEO Jim Keller and Germany's Infineon Technologies AG's CEO Jochen Hanebeck, focusing on strategies for Taiwan to sustain its semiconductor technology leadership.
According to SEMI, Jim Keller, known for his tenure as senior vice president of Intel's Silicon Engineering Group, has also held significant roles at Tesla and Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. The organizer indicated that top executives from leading memory chip suppliers, including Samsung Electronics Co., SK Hynix Inc., and Micron Technology, Inc., will be present at the 2025 event.
SEMI further announced a collaboration with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute to organize a forum featuring representatives from Japan, Europe, and the United States. This forum aims to address the restructuring of the global semiconductor supply chain amidst current geopolitical tensions.