(Yicai Global) June 16 -- Semicon China, an international chip industry exhibition, will be held in Shanghai at the end of this month after a three-month delay due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It will be the first offline professional exhibition in the eastern Chinese city since the outbreak.

Semicon China will be held at the Shanghai Pudong New International Expo Center on June 27 to 29 and have an exhibition area of more than 80,000 square meters, covering 1,000 exhibitions and 4,000 booths. Twenty simultaneous meetings and events, covering the whole industrial chain of chip design, manufacturing, packaging and testing, equipment and material suppliers, will be held during the exhibition, Lung Chu, president of Semi China, told Yicai Global today.

Semicon China has been held in Shanghai every spring since the first fair in 1998, and has grown into one of the largest and most comprehensive professional chip industry exhibitions in China. This year’s event had been planned for March 18 to 20.

To meet the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, the exhibition will accept scheduled visitors with reservations and some meetings will take place online and offline. “Some guests will pre-record their speeches and present them online, while interactive sessions will take place offline,” Lung said.

Semi expects global semiconductor industry sales to decline this year under the impact of Covid-19, but will regain growth next year. From the perspective of global fab equipment spending, global semiconductor sales will fall 4 percent this year, but will rebound 24 percent next year, hitting a record high USD67.7 billion, according to the latest report from the international industry association.

Editor: Peter Thomas