MISSION STATEMENT

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) is the premier trade association representing the U.S. semiconductor industry. Founded in 1977 by five microelectronics innovators, SIA unites over 70 companies responsible for more than 85 percent of semiconductor production in this country.

Our coalition provides domestic semiconductor companies a forum to advance the global competitiveness of the $118 billion U.S. chip industry. Through a network of corporate CEOs and working committees, SIA shapes public policy on issues critical to the industry and provides a spectrum of services to aid members in growing their own businesses.

Driving Progress and Results

Among major domestic industries, the semiconductor industry is unique. Every year, chipmakers boost performance dramatically while cutting prices, continually making high-technology goods more productive and affordable for consumers. The benefits to the U.S. economy of this "more for less" manufacturing dynamic are dramatic. In the past five years, information technology, fueled by faster and cheaper chips, has reduced the U.S. inflation rate significantly and has doubled the nation's productivity growth rate.

With the SIA, U.S. semiconductor companies are addressing significant challenges:

• Educating and recruiting a highly skilled workforce.
• Maintaining the nation's world leadership in semiconductor technology.
• Promoting fair and open trade.
• Providing safe working conditions in production facilities.
• Protecting the environment.
• Tracking and distributing statistical information of market trends.

Uniting an Industry of Innovators

The Semiconductor Industry Association provides every chip company-large, small, integrated, or fabless-with a powerful voice. Collectively, we continue to make tremendous progress in trade, technology, public policy, occupational safety and health, environmental concerns, industry statistics, and government procurement.

Each step forward is a tribute to the willingness of our members to commit time, people, and money to such projects. In turn, SIA member companies influence the industry agenda through their participation on committees- thereby ensuring positive outcomes on critical issues and reaping the concrete rewards of the association's many successes.