To: StanX Long who wrote (58399 ) 1/4/2002 3:23:42 AM From: StanX Long Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 70976 Update, maybe worth watching the outcome. StanSemiconductor Equipment and Manufacturing Forecasters Present 2002 Outlook Webcast Monday, January 7, 2002 at 12:30 p.m. PSTsemi.org !OpenDocument SAN JOSE, Calif., January 3, 2002 — Principals from leading market research firms will present their 2002 outlook for the semiconductor equipment and materials industry during SEMI's Annual Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS), Monday, Jan. 7, 2002, 12:30 p.m. PT (3:30 p.m. EST) . This forecast is being webcast by CCBN and can be accessed at SEMI's web site, www.semi.org or www.companyboardroom.com. Following the presentations, questions will be accepted via email. The industry forecasters are: Bill McClean, president, IC Insights; Klaus-Deiter Rinnen, principal analyst, Gartner Group/Dataquest; G. Dan Hutcheson, president, VLSI Research; Moshe Handlesman, president, Advanced Forecasting, Inc., and Dan Tracy, senior analyst, SEMI. The webcast will also be distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through CCBN's individual investor center at www.companyboardroom.com or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network such as America Online's Personal Finance Channel. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN's password protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com). Based in San Jose, Calif., SEMI is an international industry association serving more than 2,500 companies in the semiconductor equipment and materials and flat panel display markets. SEMI maintains offices in Austin, Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Hsinchu, Moscow, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. SEMI is on the Internet at www.semi.org. MEDIA CONTACTS: Jonathan Davis SEMI jdavis@semi.org 408-943-6937 Daniel Danzig Lewis & Summers Public Relations dan@prwebsite.com 925-216-8153