Held December 6-8, 2004 -- Dallas, Texas
Wow, did you miss a great program!

We'll hear from last year's co-chair with a look at our converging technologies, processes, standards and markets and what they can tell us about the path of the compound semi marketplace

Business models often need to be evaluated and reshaped to meet new expectations. We're here together to find out how we've been doing in meeting the customers' expectations, and what is expected in the years to come.

It always starts with a substrate, and you'll hear the market stands, as well as how sizes and quality continue to improve

The handset and wireless markets continue to play a massive influence on the plans of device and module manufacturers. You'll hear a report card on how the industry has met the need and the current projections and trends looking into 2005.

The impact of converging technologies on the wireless component manufacturer. Are there current advantages to converging processes, as well as converging technologies? If not now, when?

In this vertical market discussion, the manufacturers meet the supply chain to discuss the needs and opportunities
   Participants will include representatives from the supply chain: Substrates, Epi, Foundry, Manufacturing
 

With incredible manufacturing growth in Taiwan, some companies have moved early to take a global approach marrying design and manufacturing across the oceans. You'll get a brief look at the global perspective on what's happening and where things are headed from the perspective of a fabless business model.

In this vertical market discussion, the manufacturers meet the supply chain to discuss the needs and opportunities
   Participants will include representatives from the supply chain: Substrates, Epi, Foundry, Manufacturing
 

At an overview level, and from a unique perspective inside "the two worlds of GaN", we'll hear about common challenges and possibly converging solutions toward the biggest hurdles common to high-power LEDs and GaN electronics, including examination of:
-- Defect reduction and reliability related to defect densities
-- Heat extraction from the device location and then out to the ambient

Kevin Linthicum, Vice President - GaN Materials & Co-Founder -- Nitronex
Warren Weeks -- Intrinsic Semiconductor

In last year's GaN Electronics Workshop, we learned that the capabilities and opportunities were certainly going to be there, but that the market was still 18 to 36 months away. Are we now 6 to 24 months from implementation? Key discussion topics include the maturation of GaN as an enabling technology for phased-array, RADAR and communications applications.

The billion dollar battle to control the last mile turns on business and technical challenges. What technical breakthroughs can change the whole equation? What can happen to make full-bandwidth cost effective? Who's market is this - Telco, Cable, ISP?
Topics to Include:
    The case for fiber... who picks up the tab and why?
    Competing Broadband approaches
    Component, Equipment and Service Provider opportunities

You'll hear a report card on how the industry has met the need and the current projections and trends looking into 2005.

Still a lot happening. How do you compete in a market where the component ASP is 10% of what it was 5 years ago?

In this vertical market discussion, the manufacturers meet the supply chain to discuss the needs and opportunities
   Participants will include representatives from the supply chain: Substrates, Epi, Foundry, Manufacturing
 

Hear about nanopatterning's broad-reaching impact on how nano devices, micro structures, optical components and semiconductor devices will be manufactured in the future.

Nanotechnology Convergence in the Compounds -- What it Means for the Industry