The European gathering of the semiconductor manufacturing supply chain, organised by SEMI Europe and held 10 to 13 November 2026 at Messe München, co-located with electronica; around 160 exhibitors and 8,000 specialists across chip design, wafer fabrication, advanced packaging, materials and equipment, with an Executive Forum, an Advanced Packaging Conference and a Fab Management Forum running alongside the floor.
SEMICON Europa is the annual European exhibition and conference for the semiconductor and microelectronics manufacturing supply chain, organised by SEMI Europe, the regional arm of the global industry association SEMI. It has run since 1988. Its scope is the manufacturing chain rather than the finished chip: chip design, wafer fabrication and fab management, advanced packaging and chiplet architectures, materials and chemicals, equipment, and the supply chain questions raised by the European Chips Act. The 2026 edition runs 10 to 13 November 2026 at Messe München, co-located with electronica, the components trade fair, on the same site and dates. That co-location is the defining feature of the 2026 edition: it places the upstream manufacturing layer next to the downstream components layer and produces what the organisers jointly describe as the largest electronics platform in Europe. Source: semiconeuropa.org/about/overview and messe-muenchen.de/en/events/semicon-europa-2026.html, consulted 18 September 2026.
SEMICON Europa 2026 runs Tuesday 10 to Friday 13 November 2026. The venue is the Trade Fair Center Messe München, Am Messegelände, 81829 Munich, in the Messestadt Riem district east of the city. The dates and site are identical to those of electronica, which runs in the same halls over the same four days, so a visitor attending both has no travel between them. Daily opening hours follow the Messe München pattern of 09:00 to 18:00 Tuesday to Thursday and 09:00 to 15:00 on Friday, though confirmation specific to SEMICON Europa was not retrievable on this pass (unverifiable information). SEMICON Europa runs annually; in years when electronica does not run, it is co-located with productronica instead. Source: semiconeuropa.org and messe-muenchen.de, consulted 18 September 2026.
SEMICON Europa is organised by SEMI Europe, the European arm of SEMI, the global industry association for the electronics design and manufacturing supply chain. That makes it an association event rather than a commercial trade fair: the exhibitors are largely SEMI members, the conference programme reflects the association's policy priorities, notably the European Chips Act, and membership status affects what a delegate pays. The event runs inside Messe München's halls, but Messe München is the venue operator and electronica's organiser rather than SEMICON Europa's. The registration portal for 2026 sits at portal2026.semiconeuropa.org. Source: semiconeuropa.org/about/overview, consulted 18 September 2026.
Around 8,000 visitors attend SEMICON Europa itself, while the combined figure published for the co-located event with electronica is more than 80,000 visitors with purchasing authority; the two should not be confused, and third-party coverage regularly does. The audience is technical and industrial: semiconductor engineers, fab managers and fab operations teams, equipment and materials vendors, chip designers, advanced packaging specialists, test and qualification houses, and the policy stakeholders engaged with the European Chips Act. Because the exhibition side is open to electronica ticket holders on the same dates, the effective visitor base is much wider than the 8,000 who come specifically for SEMICON. Source: semiconeuropa.org and messe-muenchen.de/en/events/semicon-europa-2026.html, consulted 18 September 2026.
The co-location partner changes with the calendar and this is the electronica year: SEMICON Europa 2026 sits alongside electronica rather than productronica, which shifts the neighbouring audience from production equipment buyers to component buyers and pushes the combined visitor target above 80,000. Registration for the 2026 edition opened in September 2026, and the organiser has moved the attendee experience onto a dedicated portal at portal2026.semiconeuropa.org. On content, the 2026 programme continues the established structure of Executive Forum, Advanced Packaging Conference and Fab Management Forum, with the addition of tracks on sustainability, smart manufacturing, mobility, medical technology and workforce development. No wholly new conference or format was announced in the sources reachable on this pass. Source: semiconeuropa.org and portal2026.semiconeuropa.org, consulted 18 September 2026.
Three named conference programmes anchor the agenda. The Executive Forum carries keynotes, market trend analysis and the industry policy conversation. The Advanced Packaging Conference covers packaging technology and chiplet architectures. The Fab Management Forum covers fab operations. Around those sit tracks on sustainability, smart manufacturing, mobility, medical technology and workforce development, plus a Women in Semiconductor networking programme. The event record puts the speaker count at more than 150 across the three main programmes, covering semiconductor manufacturing technology, supply chain policy and the European Chips Act. A complete named 2026 speaker roster was not published in the sources reachable on this pass. Source: semiconeuropa.org and semiconeuropa.org/APC-FMF-Expo, consulted 18 September 2026.
Four, and they are priced separately, which is the point a first-time attendee most often gets wrong. The exhibition floor of around 160 exhibitors is one format and is reachable on an exhibition pass. The three named conferences, Executive Forum, Advanced Packaging Conference and Fab Management Forum, are paid conference programmes with their own tariff. Networking programmes, including Women in Semiconductor, run alongside. And the event record confirms B2B matchmaking is available, while advance meeting scheduling and session replay are both recorded as absent. The crucial detail is the direction of inclusion: a conference ticket includes free access to both the SEMICON Europa exhibition and electronica from 10 to 13 November 2026, so the expensive ticket opens everything while the cheap one does not. Source: semiconeuropa.org/about/register and the database record, consulted 18 September 2026.
The principal one is not a side event but a full co-located trade fair: electronica, running in the same halls on the same 10 to 13 November dates, with around 3,500 exhibitors of its own. For a SEMICON delegate that is effectively a second exhibition included in the ticket. Inside SEMICON Europa itself, the Women in Semiconductor networking programme and the various conference receptions function as the social programme. No independent fringe, satellite conference or Munich-wide semiconductor week was found in the sources reachable on this pass. The German regional cluster organisations, notably Silicon Saxony, promote attendance and organise member participation, which in practice produces cluster-level gatherings around the show. Source: semiconeuropa.org and silicon-saxony.de, consulted 18 September 2026.
Two tariffs apply, and membership of SEMI changes both. For the Advanced Packaging Conference and the Fab Management Forum, a SEMI member pays EUR 690 and a non-member EUR 880. A FLEX ticket, which covers a broader programme, costs EUR 880 for members and EUR 1,180 for non-members. A student FLEX ticket is EUR 100. Conference tickets include free access to the SEMICON Europa exhibition and to electronica across all four days, which is what makes the arithmetic work: a non-member paying EUR 880 for the Advanced Packaging Conference also gets both exhibition floors that an electronica visitor pays EUR 109 for separately. The event record additionally holds a day ticket at EUR 48 online and EUR 66 on site, which is the electronica visitor tariff granting exhibition access rather than a SEMICON conference pass, and the two should not be conflated. Speakers and committee members receive a complimentary code from SEMI staff. Source: semiconeuropa.org/about/register and the database record, consulted 18 September 2026.
The event record shows the call-for-papers status as closed for the 2026 edition, and no open submission form or deadline was found. The route that is documented concerns what happens after selection rather than how to apply: SEMI staff contact speakers and committee members directly and issue a complimentary promotional code granting free access to the event, which confirms a curated, committee-driven programme rather than an open call. Given that SEMI is a membership association, the practical path onto the Executive Forum, the Advanced Packaging Conference or the Fab Management Forum runs through SEMI membership and the relevant technical committees, and the timing for a following edition is the first half of the year. No speaker fee policy is documented. Source: semiconeuropa.org/about/register and the database record, consulted 18 September 2026.
Exhibiting runs through semiconeuropa.org/exhibit-now, with an exhibitor FAQ at semiconeuropa.org/exhibitor/exhibitor-faq and an on-site space selection process for the following edition documented at semiconeuropa.org/OSS_2026, which is how returning exhibitors book their stands during the show itself. No public rate card or sponsorship tier pricing was retrievable on this pass, so commercial terms are quoted. One allocation rule is published and is worth knowing when budgeting staff: each exhibitor receives a minimum of two passes based on booth size, with additional passes for larger booths, so a large stand team may need to buy passes beyond the allocation. The on-site space selection mechanism also means the best positions for 2027 are taken by companies present in 2026. Source: semiconeuropa.org/exhibit-now and semiconeuropa.org/exhibitor/exhibitor-faq, consulted 18 September 2026.
Not publicly disclosed as a named sponsor roster in the sources reachable on this pass, and the event record holds no sponsor list. What is published is participation: around 160 exhibitors on the SEMICON Europa floor, alongside roughly 3,500 on the co-located electronica floor. For an association event, the backing that matters is SEMI membership itself, which funds the organisation and supplies both the exhibitor base and the conference committees; the member and non-member price split in the ticket entry is the visible expression of that structure. The event record holds no official media partner list, so no mention in this fiche carries a "(media partner)" marker. Searched: the official site's exhibition, exhibitor and registration pages. Source: semiconeuropa.org, consulted 18 September 2026.
Equipment, materials and services suppliers to semiconductor fabs, rather than chip companies themselves. The thematic list describes the mix precisely: semiconductor manufacturing, advanced packaging, chiplet architectures, fab management, materials and chemicals, equipment, chip design and the Chips Act supply chain. In practice that means wafer fab equipment makers, specialty chemicals and materials suppliers, metrology and test companies, packaging and assembly subcontractors, design service houses and fab construction and facilities specialists, with European research institutes and cluster organisations such as Silicon Saxony alongside. Around 160 exhibitors is a small floor by trade fair standards, which reflects the concentration of the industry: there are not thousands of companies in this supply chain. The co-located electronica floor, by contrast, is dominated by Asian component manufacturers. Source: semiconeuropa.org and the database record, consulted 18 September 2026.
Journalists must pre-register for media credentials and bring a valid press identity card on site to collect the press badge. Accredited press representatives have access to all public conferences and proceedings, which is a broader grant than many conference organisers make, since it covers the paid Executive Forum, Advanced Packaging Conference and Fab Management Forum sessions rather than the exhibition alone. The qualifier "public" indicates that closed committee or member-only sessions are excluded. No accreditation deadline, no detailed eligibility policy beyond the press card requirement, and no on-site press facility description were published in the sources reachable on this pass. Note that electronica runs its own separate accreditation process for the same dates and venue. Source: semiconeuropa.org/about/register, consulted 18 September 2026.
Coverage sits in the semiconductor and electronics trade press and in regional cluster communication rather than in general business media. Silicon Saxony, the German semiconductor cluster organisation, publishes the event to its membership, and comparable cluster and economic development bodies do the same, including the Southern Economic Development Council in the United States. Messe München covers it as venue operator and co-location partner through its own event pages. The organiser publishes through semiconeuropa.org and SEMI's own channels, including a substantial social presence on LinkedIn, X, YouTube and Instagram under the SEMI brand. Independent reporting specific to the 2026 edition was not located on this pass, which is normal eight weeks out. The event record holds no official media partner list, so no mention in this fiche carries a "(media partner)" marker. Source: the items named above, consulted 18 September 2026.
The main risk here is not spin but conflation. The figures in circulation mix two events: around 8,000 visitors and 160 exhibitors belong to SEMICON Europa, while more than 80,000 visitors and around 3,500 exhibitors belong to the combined co-located event with electronica, and third-party listings routinely attach the larger pair to the SEMICON name. Both sets are organiser figures without independent audit. Beyond that, most of what circulates is cluster and economic development communication promoting member attendance, which is promotional by design, and stand-builder marketing. The association structure does make one thing more checkable than usual: the conference pricing is published with an explicit member and non-member split, which is a verifiable commercial term rather than a claim about scale. Source: cross-reading of semiconeuropa.org against messe-muenchen.de and the cluster items above, 18 September 2026.
Anyone downstream of the fab. This event is about how chips are made, not about what they do: an embedded developer, an AI application team or a systems integrator will find almost nothing addressed to them, and if they are at Messe München that week they belong on the electronica floor next door. The conference pricing also filters hard, and deliberately: at EUR 880 for a non-member Advanced Packaging Conference ticket, a company evaluating whether the semiconductor supply chain is relevant to it should send someone on an exhibition pass first. And a would-be speaker should note that the programme is committee-driven with no open call, so arriving with a paper is not a route in. Source: semiconeuropa.org, consulted 18 September 2026.
It is the European stop on SEMI's global SEMICON circuit and the only one on the continent. SEMI runs SEMICON events across the major semiconductor regions, with SEMICON West in the United States the largest, and SEMICON Europa is the European edition. Within Europe it has no direct competitor: no other event convenes the fab equipment, materials and advanced packaging supply chain at this scale, which is a function of an industry concentrated in relatively few companies. Its position in the November week alongside electronica, and in alternate years alongside productronica, ties it to the Munich electronics calendar and gives it a neighbouring audience that a standalone semiconductor event would not have. For a European fab supplier, this is the annual fixture. Source: semiconeuropa.org and the EventsIndex edge AI registry, consulted 18 September 2026.
Yes, across SEMI's global network: SEMICON West in the United States is the largest, and SEMI runs further SEMICON events in the principal Asian semiconductor markets. Their dates, cities and pricing were not established on this pass and are not reproduced here rather than reproduced wrongly (unverifiable information); a reader needing the global calendar should consult semi.org. Within Europe, SEMICON Europa itself moves with its co-location partner rather than between cities: it is held at Messe München alongside electronica in even years and alongside productronica in odd years, so the venue is stable and the neighbouring fair alternates. Source: semiconeuropa.org and productronica.com/en/semicon/, consulted 18 September 2026.
English. The event record gives English as the sole working language, and the conference programmes, the site and the exhibitor material are published in English despite the German venue, which reflects an international technical audience. No German-language track and no simultaneous interpretation is documented. Note that the co-located electronica operates bilingually in English and German, so a visitor moving between the two floors will encounter German on the electronica side. Source: semiconeuropa.org and the database record, consulted 18 September 2026.
Not publicly disclosed as an organiser-run offer, and the event record holds no replay access and no digital platform for this event. No livestream, virtual pass or on-demand conference archive was found for the 2026 edition in the sources reachable on this pass. Given that the conference programmes are the revenue-generating part of the event, priced from EUR 690 to EUR 1,180, an open remote option would cut across the pricing model. SEMI publishes material through its own channels afterwards, including video on the SEMI YouTube channel, which is the realistic remote source. Searched: the official site's registration and conference pages. Source: semiconeuropa.org and the database record, consulted 18 September 2026.
Not publicly disclosed in the sources reachable on this pass. No refund window, cancellation schedule or name-transfer procedure was found on the registration page. The amounts make the gap material: a non-member FLEX ticket at EUR 1,180 is among the more expensive conference passes in this registry, and the registration portal opened in September for a November event, so buyers are committing two months ahead. A delegate should obtain the terms from SEMI Europe before registering. Exhibitor cancellation terms sit in the exhibitor contract and the exhibitor FAQ rather than on the public registration page. Searched: the registration page, the exhibitor FAQ and the 2026 portal. Source: semiconeuropa.org/about/register, consulted 18 September 2026.
No event-specific accessibility statement was found for SEMICON Europa, but the venue provision is documented at site level by Messe München and is substantial. The Messestadt West and Messestadt Ost U-Bahn stations are both wheelchair accessible, as is access to all site entrances; the halls are step-free with lifts and accessible toilets throughout; accessible sanitary facilities are located at the West, East and North entrances, on the south sides of the A and B halls, on the north sides of the C halls, next to the information counter and in all first-floor hall restaurants; and holders of a disabled person's pass park free in the Parkhaus West car park and on the outdoor event parking areas. What SEMI Europe adds on top, whether reserved conference seating, companion arrangements or an access contact, is not documented. Source: messe-muenchen.de/en/services/barrier-free-accessibility.html, consulted 18 September 2026.
Messe München is at Am Messegelände, 81829 Munich, in the Messestadt Riem district east of the city centre. The U2 underground line runs to Messestadt West and Messestadt Ost, taking just under 20 minutes from München Hauptbahnhof with no change; Messestadt West serves the western entrance and Messestadt Ost the eastern one, so the choice depends on which halls you need. From Munich Airport there is no direct rail link to the fairground, so the usual route is S-Bahn into the city and then the U2. By road the site sits on the A94 with on-site parking. Note that the electronica print-at-home ticket does not include public transport, and no equivalent inclusion is documented for SEMICON passes, so an MVV zone M ticket is a separate purchase. Source: messe-muenchen.de/en/services/plan-your-visit/travel-information/messe-muenchen/, consulted 18 September 2026.
Eight hundred and eighty euros for a non-member Advanced Packaging Conference pass reads as expensive next to electronica's forty-eight-euro day ticket, and most people stop there. The inclusion runs the other way. A SEMICON conference ticket carries free access to the SEMICON Europa exhibition and to electronica across all four days, which means the delegate paying EUR 880 also receives the four-day electronica access that an ordinary visitor pays EUR 109 for, plus a 160-exhibitor specialist floor that has no equivalent in Europe. The electronica ticket buys none of it in reverse: EUR 109 gets the components halls and nothing from the SEMICON conference programme. For anyone whose work touches both the manufacturing chain and the component market, the arithmetic points one way, and the fact that the association prices its members EUR 190 below non-members on the same pass points at the other thing worth calculating: whether SEMI membership pays for itself on attendance alone.
Two events share a venue, four days and most of their coverage, and their numbers have merged. SEMICON Europa draws around 8,000 visitors to around 160 exhibitors. The co-located pairing with electronica is what produces the "more than 80,000 visitors" and "3,500 exhibitors" that third-party listings routinely attach to the SEMICON name, and the gap between the two is a factor of ten. Neither set is audited, and both come from the organisers of events they sell space at. The practical consequence is not that SEMICON is small, it is that a supplier evaluating the show should be clear about which crowd it is buying access to: 8,000 people who came for wafer fabrication and advanced packaging, or 80,000 who came mostly for components and will walk past a fab equipment stand without stopping. The 160-exhibitor figure is the more honest measure of this event's scale, and for an industry with this few companies in it, 160 is not a small number.
Official site: semiconeuropa.org. Overview: semiconeuropa.org/about/overview. Registration and pricing: semiconeuropa.org/about/register. 2026 attendee portal: portal2026.semiconeuropa.org/home. Exhibition and conference expo pages: semiconeuropa.org/APC-FMF-Expo. Exhibit: semiconeuropa.org/exhibit-now. Exhibitor FAQ: semiconeuropa.org/exhibitor/exhibitor-faq. On-site space selection: semiconeuropa.org/OSS_2026. Venue and co-location: messe-muenchen.de/en/events/semicon-europa-2026.html. Odd-year co-location partner: productronica.com/en/semicon/. Social: linkedin.com/company/semi-org/, @SEMIorg on X and YouTube, @semi_org on Instagram, hashtag #SEMICONEuropa.