Like so many others in the semiconductor industry, when someone mentioned the industry organization SEMI. I thought manufacturing and large events. 
That was until I joined SEMI earlier this year as director of marketing for SEMI Americas. I quickly learned that SEMI is so much more than the industry perception that its sole purpose is to organize the 60 international semiconductor equipment and materials events it does each year.
For starters, it has 2,000 member companies and 1.3-million individual members in regions throughout the world, 5,000 volunteers and more than 170 programs. Members have access to SEMI in-house market data reports and R&D programs chock full of relevant information to help them make better, more informed business decisions. And, we’re celebrating our 1,000th standard, an important industry milestone we reached this summer.
