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Roundtable Forum: Semiconductor Equipment

SUSAN B. BILLAT is a Managing Director with Robertson Stephens, having joined the firm in 1996 from Ultratech Stepper, where she was Senior Vice President of marketing. She has more than 22 years of experience in the electronics and semiconductor equipment industries. Ms. Billat holds a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Profile
TWST: Mike, how did the semiconductor equipment sector get where it is

today from the very serious downturn of 1998? What were the events and

developments that changed the fundamentals?

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