Global SEMIndex Press Briefing Open to Reporters Onsite
Wednesday February 17, 1:37 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: SEMI
Global SEMIndex Press Briefing Open to Reporters Onsite or Via AT&T Teleconference; Background Information Available From SEMI Contacts Below
NEW YORK, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) will announce a global stock index Thursday morning during the second day of SEMInvest 99, a three-day international investor conference.
Reporters are invited to attend the 8:00-8:30 a.m. Eastern time February 18 press briefing at the Plaza Hotel in New York City or call in via AT&T Teleconference. Those calling in will be able to ask questions, following a brief overview of the new stock index.
Call-in numbers are as follows: 800-553-0272 (U.S.) or 612-288-0318 (international).
Press briefing participants include:
Stanley T. Myers, President of SEMI -- will briefly describe SEMI and discuss the rationale for the index.
James C. Morgan, Chairman and CEO, Applied Materials, Inc. -- will provide acompany viewpoint of the new index. Applied, the largest SEMI member in the index, is the world's largest supplier of wafer fabrication systems and services to the global semiconductor industry.
Bill Nichols, Vice President of Thomson Investor Network, a Thomson Financial Services company -- will demonstrate the new index. Thomson created the index and will maintain it.
Byron Walker, equity analyst for Warburg Dillon Read -- will give a viewpoint from the investment community perspective.
Among the companies presenting at SEMInvest and included in SEMIndex are industry leaders Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT - news), ASM Lithography N.V. (Nasdaq: ASMLF - news), KLA-Tencor (Nasdaq: KLAC - news), Etec Systems (Nasdaq: ETEC - news), Novellus Systems (Nasdaq: NVLS - news), and Teradyne (NYSE: TER - news).
Based in Mountain View, Calif., SEMI serves more than 2,300 worldwide public and private companies participating in the $65 billion semiconductor equipment and flat panel display markets. SEMI maintains offices in Austin, Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Hsinchu (Taiwan), Moscow, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo and Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Bruce Lewis or Gary Summers of Lewis and Summers, 925-284-7004, for SEMI.
SOURCE: SEMI
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