SAN JOSE – The MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Engineering Council has named Ronald Steger, partner-in-charge of global semiconductor practice, KPMG, as keynote speaker for its Feb. 19 symposium in San Jose.
 
In his presentation, The Consumer Electronics Boom - How Semiconductor and Consumer Electronics Companies Can Improve Cost, Time-To-Market and Product Quality, Steger will provide analysis of survey results, with a particular emphasis on time-to-market and cost-reduction initiatives.
 
Other topics at the symposium, titled Semiconductor Packaging – Impacting the Age of Consumer Electronics, include time-to-market and consumer semiconductor packaging; cost-of-ownership challenges for consumer products; solutions for consumer product miniaturization, and advancing technologies for consumer electronics.