SAN JOSE, CA–( EMWNews – April 8, 2008) – SEMI and Strategic Marketing Associates (SMA)

today announced that SEMI has acquired the World Fab Watch database and the

300 mm Fab report from SMA. The acquisition includes ownership of the SMA

website, www.scfab.com. This completes the acquisition announced one year

ago by SEMI of wafer fab database products that included FabFutures, Fab

Construction Monitor, Fab Equipment Monitor (formerly FabExpenditures),

FabFutures LE (formerly FabTimeline) and Fab Capacity Report.

SEMI and SMA have collaborated for 13 years on the joint marketing and

sales of World Fab Watch, and in the past year collaboration has extended

to a strategic partnership to jointly share in fab research activities.

Christian Gregor Dieseldorff, formerly of SMA, joined SEMI one year ago as

senior analyst and director of market research and he will lead fab

research activities at SEMI. Under the terms of the agreement, George

Burns, president of SMA, will continue to advise and assist SEMI in fab

research for the complete suite of fab information products he developed

and has now transferred to SEMI.

The SEMI market research team includes analysts at SEMI offices in San Jose

and Shanghai, with a soon to be hired analyst at SEMI Taiwan.

The complete suite of fab database products contains a comprehensive and

highly dynamic set of information, which is updated quarterly, on the

latest global fab trends. It is a resource that multiplies the market

research capabilities of its subscribers, allowing them to more effectively

target key customers and accurately analyze product trends with relative

ease.

“World Fab Watch has been long recognized as premier source of information

on semiconductor fabs globally,” said Stanley T. Myers, president and CEO

of SEMI. “SEMI and its analyst team look forward to continuing this product

and to support industry needs for valuable information on fab investment

activities.”

“I’m very pleased,” Burns notes, “to complete the handoff of these fab

information products to an organization that is uniquely qualified to serve

our respective customer bases with fab information.”

SEMI will also publish and distribute quarterly analysis of fab and capital

spending trends by Burns in SMA’s Quarterly Fab Report and SMA’s monthly

newsletter, International Wafer Fab News.

Existing customers that subscribed to the resource through Strategic

Marketing Associates will still be able to access and renew their accounts

by visiting www.scfab.com.

For more information about market research reports from SEMI including the

Wafer Fab Databases, please visit www.semi.org/marketinfo, or contact Sandy

Fowler at [email protected], or via phone at +1.408.943.6973.

About SEMI

SEMI is 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.