SEMI EUROPE STANDARDS SPRING CONFERENCE AND MEETINGS - FOCUS ON CROSSROADS
BETWEEN PHOTOVOLTAICS AND SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING
Event Scheduled for 5-7 March 2008 in Brussels, Belgium

BRUSSELS, Belgium - 14 December 2007 - SEMI Europe today announced that its
Standards Spring Conference and Meetings will be held 5-7 March 2008 in
Brussels, Belgium. The event, which includes a strong emphasis on the
synergies between photovoltaic and semiconductor manufacturing, consists of
a conference, standards technical committee and task forces meetings, and
company tours to Photovoltech and AMI Semiconductor.

"PV & Mo (o) re: Energy ? efficiency - electronics" is the overarching
theme of the conference, which features speakers from the equipment and
materials supplier community, and from their customers and downstream
users. The conference content includes: New trends in high efficiency PV
silicon technology; Standardization on PV; Factory Integration,
Traceability and Automation; Integrated Facility Level Productivity
Management and Markets in PV like Compound; and Organic Semiconductor
Technologies.

The SEMI Standards technical meetings address issues that encompass the
entire spectrum of IC manufacturing and will tackle a wide range of topics
including innovation and improvement of the photo mask supply chain for the
semiconductor industry; standards for photovoltaic facilities; precursors;
silicon wafer specifications; photovoltaic equipment interface and more.

For complete information on the event and the agenda of the programs and
meetings, please visit the SEMI website at www.semi.org/eustandards or
contact Saviour Alfino at SEMI Europe (+32.2.289.66.12, salfino@semi.org )

SEMI Europe is the European office of SEMI, the global industry association
serving the manufacturing supply chains for the microelectronic, display
and photovoltaic industries. SEMI member companies are the engine of the
future, enabling smarter, faster and more economical products that improve
our lives. Since 1970, SEMI has been committed to helping members grow more
profitably, create new markets and meet common industry challenges. SEMI
maintains offices in Austin, Beijing, Brussels, Hsinchu, Moscow, San Jose,
Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. For more
information, visit www.semi.org.

ASSOCIATION CONTACTS :
Carlos Lee/SEMI Europe
Tel: +32.2.2896497
E-mail: clee@semi.org

Scott Smith/SEMI
Tel: +1.408.943.7957
E-mail: ssmith@semi.org