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The floorplan from SEMICON West II, published in the
April 1972 issue of Solid State Technolgoy.
necessary to choose a board
of directors, Hugle said.
The first directors were Bill
Hugle; Philip Gregory, chief
purchasing agent of Raytheon
Semiconductor; Trevor Law,
president of Galamar; Bob
Shreiner, manager of
Fairchild Test Systems;
Fred Kulicke; John
Dannelly; and Howard
Moss, vice president
of administration for
Texas Instruments.
Later, Roger Borovoy,
patent counsel of Fairchild, was added as a
director and counsel of
the organization, and
Don Sutherland, DuPont
vice president for semiconductor was
The floorplan from SEMICON
added as a director.
West III. The show had already
At the first SEMICON show in
outgrown the Hall of Flowers.
May 1971, with a small but deterwhich Fred Kulicke chaired. At the
mined membership of 15, exhibitors
Palo Alto meeting, Hugle was named only partially filled the Hall of
president. An important additional
Flowers at the San Mateo Fairsupporter was John Dannelly,
grounds (this from “SEMI Historical
vice president and co-founder of
Perspective: Serving an Industry
Thermco.
for 20 Years,” produced by SEMI in
Once the organization was in place 1992). The total number of exhibit
and its principle objectives set, it was booths at SEMICON/West 71 was
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The cover of the May
1971 issue of Solid State
Technology heralded
the first SEMICON with
a “SEMICON Program
& Exhibits” flag on
the top right. Note
the 50 µm contact
dimension in the cover
story, which was quite
advanced at the time.
fewer than 100 with a comparatively
meager attendee total of 2,800. The
first show was relatively small, but
incredible growth was seen immediately. In 1974, SEMICON/West had
its first sellout year. In 1992, the
show moved from the Fairgrounds to
the Moscone Convention Center in
San Francisco, which hosted a record
number of 2,800 exhibit booths (coincidentally the same as the number
of attendees in 1971) and more than
49,800 attendees.
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