Member Benefits

Value is paramount in today’s economy, and few organizations know that better than ISMI.

As a dues-based consortium, we continuously seek to enhance our members’ return on investment (ROI) through fab-ready deliverables, cost avoidance, and creation of intellectual property. We do this in an idea-rich, environment that draws from a network of the industry’s top companies and experts—all helping drive innovation through a wide assortment of member-specific and industry activities.

In serving our members, ISMI focuses on two crucial manufacturing challenges: increased productivity and cost reduction. We investigate ways to achieve and maintain world-class fab productivity while solving both immediate and long-term manufacturing issues. We also continually work to reduce current fab costs while developing new methods to manage ever-increasing capital, manufacturing and R&D expenses.

Using SEMATECH’s successful collaborative model, ISMI delivers significant benefits to members via strategies that include:

  • Collaboration: Members gain manufacturing know-how by sharing of best known methods.
  • Shared Development Cost: Members lower the price of productivity improvement by paying only a portion of each project’s cost.
  • Industry Influence: ISMI members represents half of the world’s IC production, giving them a collective clout to reshape the industry.
  • Leveraged Resources: Members coordinate and share expenses with other industry organizations to achieve cost-effective results.

Benefits of ISMI membership include:

  • Direct access to member customer base and network of experts
  • Benchmarking and participation in various surveys
  • Access to ideas, knowledge from:
    • Technical projects (deliverables)
    • ISMI member-only website
  • Ability to influence work that is of particular interest to your company, including participation in:
    • Program advisory groups
    • Working groups
  • Leveraged funding of projects

Our programs and projects reinforce ISMI’s core value: to accelerate manufacturing improvement. ISMI delivers an average of four times the membership dues in value to its member each year in direct IP or cost avoidance—a payback that makes the ISMI one of the best manufacturing investment vehicles available to semiconductor companies.