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Feature Article
Semicon West Photo Album
A bench with a large SEMICON sign welcomed visitors to North Hall. [semi.org] Visitors from Hong Kong included Bally Bang, director of sales and marketing for DIAS Automation (left), and W.S. Leung, the company's managing director. [dias.com.hk]
Phoseon Technology of San Jose attracted booth visitors with its product line of infrared inspection systems. [phoseon.com] Carl Lehtonen, president of Sicoast Inc., Austin, Texas, representing AEM-Evertech, describes the company's test interface products to Harry Ong, managing director of HL Electronics Engineering and Marketing Pte., Singapore.
Armando Reyes, SPANSION, Sunnyvale (left), shares a joke with Chuck Blakeslee of Gold Technologies, San Jose. Dr. Christian Schaefer, senior vice president of sales for the EV Group, Schärding, Austria, shows a new wafer-bonding system. [evgroup.com]
Lead-free solders were the topic of discussion at the Indium booth. From left are Jim Hisert, applications engineer; Rick Short, marketing communications manager; and William Macartney, regional manager for the Clinton, N.Y. company. [indium.com] Dr. James Getty introduces a new FlexTRAK machine from March Plasma Systems, Concord, Calif. [marchplasma.com]
Consultant Norm Gould (left), San Jose, chats with old friend Gary Catlin, microelectronics engineering supervisor at Plexus in Nampa, Idaho. [plexus.com] Yaron Mazor, an applications engineer for the Micro Electronics Div. of Camtek, demonstrates "virtual inspection." [camtek.co.il]
Two industry vets, Vern Solberg of Tessera (left) and Jo Sax, talk about old times. [tessera.com] Yuichi Kanno of General Bussan, Japan (left), discusses Plastronics new socket products with Steve Durrett, sales manager for the Irving, Texas-based company. [plastronicsusa.com]
One firm hired a gaggle of comely "Compliance Agents" to drive visitors to its booth. Unfortunately, we can't remember the firm's name! Mehran Jafarzadeh, vice president of Contech Solutions, San Leandro, Calif., displays the company's line of test interface products. [contechsolutions.com]
From left, Chris Borch of Micro-Mechanics and Chris Goodrich and Kevin Hartsoe, both of NDCI, discuss the first day of the show. [ndc-int.com]

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