Global Chamber® Semiconductor Opportunities Special Event SFO

The program includes company presentations, a concierge discussion and feedback, economic development perspectives, and Q&A. It is intended for semiconductor supply-chain leaders, companies seeking advanced-manufacturing business, economic development leaders, and service providers. The event also welcomes companies from multiple regions, including Malaysia, the Republic of Korea, the United States, Mexico, Canada, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Israel, Yemen, and the UAE. A concierge approach is designed to help companies entering the U.S. semiconductor supply chain connect with relevant people. The event also highlights opportunities to connect with Malaysian exhibitors.

SPCC combines technical sessions, poster presentations, and business-focused programming on surface preparation, cleaning technologies, and wet processes for semiconductor manufacturing. Technical topics include front-end, back-end, and packaging; cleaning equipment, materials, and metrology; advanced-memory challenges such as pattern collapse, contaminant removal from high-aspect-ratio structures, selective etching, and surface preparation for DRAM, 3D-NAND, and emerging memories; and wet and dry cleaning for FinFET, gate-all-around, nanosheet, nanowire, and CFET devices. Other areas include post-etch and post-CMP cleaning, advanced interconnect and EUV mask cleaning, contamination control, high-purity water and chemical delivery, in-situ monitoring, process control and AI/machine learning, trace-particle and metal detection, and sustainability. The scope also includes surface preparation for Ge, III-V, GaN, SiC, and 2D systems, as well as photovoltaics, MEMS, and nanoelectronics. Business-focused programming addresses macroeconomic, market, and structural trends shaping the global semiconductor industry, including industry dynamics, supply chain, and strategic outlook.

The conference theme is “Beyond the $1T Milestone: Building the Next Chapter of Semiconductor Growth.” Topics include semiconductor demand, AI, memory, advanced packaging, quantum technologies, manufacturing capacity, supply chain resilience, and ecosystem partnerships. Program sessions address macroeconomic outlook and geopolitics; memory and AI semiconductor demand; non-AI semiconductor, equipment, and materials forecasts; advanced packaging; quantum computing; robotics; co-packaged optics; and inference AI. Further sessions examine global fab capacity, whether semiconductor capacity can keep pace with demand, and what it will take to sustain the next era of growth. A Bulls & Bears panel focuses on U.S. semiconductor and semiconductor capital-equipment investment.

The conference serves semiconductor-industry executives, engineering and fab managers, academics, startup founders, financial analysts, market researchers, consulting firms, and consortia. Its stated focus is materials innovation, management, and business success; the 2027 agenda is not yet published.

The conference examines market and technology trends in bulk, rare, and specialty gases used in electronics, for executives, buyers, product managers, and strategic planners across the electronic-gases value chain. Sessions address U.S. semiconductor public policy, CHIPS metrology, gas-system challenges as Moore’s Law advances, vapor-phase materials, large-grain molybdenum deposition, solid precursor delivery, and tungsten powder supply-chain issues. A low-GWP adoption session discusses fab direct emissions, coordinated gas substitution, and industry-wide collaboration. Other technical topics include contamination control and yield, hydrogen-halide contamination, deuterium supply and purity, isotropic dry-cleaning technology, zero-nuclear-spin isotopes for semiconductor fabs and quantum computing, and new etch gases. The program also covers gas-delivery sealing, contamination and reliability tradeoffs; AI applications in automated gas handling; EUV tool gas purification; High NA EUV lithography infrastructure; sub-fab roadmaps and collaboration; precursor delivery and control; abatement; and emissions monitoring. Metrology sessions address MoCl5 stability and impurity measurements in electronic-grade rare gases and ultra-high-purity gases. Market sessions examine the global economy and semiconductors, fab capacity and equipment, helium, and specialty gases.

The executive forum addresses new capital investment opportunities and green technology, along with China’s peak production, rising low-cost imports, and changing U.S. tariff schedules. It brings together leaders across the global steel value chain, including raw-material suppliers, steelmakers, processors, fabricators, buyers, traders, technology and equipment providers, and investors. Its program connects strategic market economics with steel production technology.

The program covers specialty chemical business strategy, regulatory developments, and manufacturing operations across three tracks: C-Suite Executive Leadership, Regulatory & Policy, and Manufacturing & Operations. Sessions address the U.S. economic outlook and chemical industry impacts; AI in commercial operations and supply planning; domestic pharmaceutical supply chains; process safety; workforce succession and knowledge transfer; mergers and acquisitions; TSCA and the CMAS RTR final rule; trade policy and supply-chain resilience; operational disruption; and contract manufacturing partnerships and market trends. The program also includes an economic outlook briefing, an analysis of the 2026 election’s implications for manufacturing and chemicals, SOCMA’s Annual Meeting and update, and the Awards & Safety Recognition Dinner.

The program combines manufacturing exhibits with an executive perspectives keynote panel series and featured presentations across manufacturing disciplines. Exhibit and technology areas include automation, robotics, smart manufacturing, precision machining, additive manufacturing, software, industrial IoT, advanced materials, cybersecurity, and energy and environmental efficiency. The Smart Manufacturing Experience Knowledge Bars focus on advanced manufacturing technologies and how technology, innovation, and AI can help small and medium-sized manufacturers address technology adoption challenges. The event also features SME Mission Critical: Workforce 2030, focused on manufacturers’ workforce challenges, and the Bright Minds College Experience, with panels, roundtables, executive insights, peer learning, and hands-on exploration of manufacturing technologies.

An international technical conference on solutions for improving semiconductor manufacturing. Technical presentations highlight industry innovations with specific results, and papers presented at the conference are peer-reviewed by the ASMC Technical Committee; select manuscripts are published in the IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing special section. The 2027 call for abstracts covers Advanced Equipment Processes and Materials; Advanced Metrology; Advanced Process Control; Defect Free Manufacturing; Defect Inspection and Reduction; Big Data Management and Cybersecurity; Equipment Optimization; Manufacturing for Sustainability; Novel Device Technologies; Patterning, Design & Technology Optimization; and Smart Manufacturing & Factory Operations.