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description: Cimetrix provides updates from SEMICON West 2010
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# Industry News, Trends and Technology, and Standards Updates

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# Updates from SEMICON West 2010

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***We're having a great time at SEMICON West 2010!***

Attendance (and the industry) is up and everyone is in good spirits. We've met with several customers introducing them to our new GEM Framework as well as our equipment automation solution, CIMControlFramework. The 1st day of SCW10 produced more leads for Cimetrix than the entire 2008 show!

The Cimetrix team has also been busy attending several industry and SEMI standards related events. Yesterday, Dave Faulkner, EVP of Sales & Marketing, facilitated the PV Group's interactive workshop: "The Middle Ground – The Role of Industry Collaboration in PV Manufacturing to Accelerate the Path towards a Sustainable Energy Future." In addition, Brian Rubow, Product Manager, was named the new GEM300 Task Force co-chair.

Today, Interface A is creating some buzz at the show. ISMI officially announced the new Freeze Version. During the ISMI eManufacturing workshop, Les Marshall, of [GLOBALFOUNDRIES](http://www.globalfoundries.com), publically stated that they **need** E148, E157, and Interface A. This is great news for Cimetrix - who invested early on in its development of Interface A Software Solutions! (Read Dave Faulkner's earlier post on the importance of Interface A data and Brian Rubow's earlier post on the need to "Be Prepared" for the new Freeze Version)

If you're at the show, please stop by and say, "hello." ***Cimetrix's booth is located in the south hall in booth #2331.***

 Topics: [Events](https://www.cimetrix.com/blog/topic/events)

Posted by [Cimetrix](https://www.cimetrix.com/blog/author/cimetrix) on Jul 14, 2010 7:50:00 PM

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