The organization was formed after bilateral trade talks between the United States and Japan in Vancouver, B.C., last summer. Those meetings led to an agreement aimed at increasing foreign access to Japan's $44 billion-a-year computer chip market.
The day-long meeting will be at the Ihilani Resort & Spa in West Oahu.
Hawaii played a part in the initial Japan-U.S. agreement. Semiconductor leaders from both countries met in private sessions here last April, just before a U.S.-Japan summit meeting in Tokyo. In the end, the semiconductor trade was not discussed at the Tokyo meeting but in early August the new agreement was reached in the Canada meetings.
The organizations involved in the early Hawaii talks, the Semiconductor Industry Association on the American side and the Electronic Industries Association of Japan, later got together to form the new Semiconductor Council.
The U.S. delegation to Ihilani meeting wil be headed by Alfred J. Stein, chairman of the SIA and chief executive, president and chairman of VLSI Technology Inc., and Curtis J. Crawford, chairman of the SIA trade committee and president of the microelectronics group of Lucent Technologies Inc.
The Japanese delegation will be headed by Norio Ogha, EIAJ chairman and chairman of Sony Corp., and Masanobu Ohyama, chairman of EIAJ's electronic devices steering committee and senior executive vice president of Toshiba Corp.
The Semiconductor Council was formed to provide a forum for industry-to-industry cooperation and communication, a spokesman said. Initially it is made up of U.S. and Japanese membership but it is open to trade associations in other countries, as long as the countries agree to move rapidly to eliminate semiconductor tariff barriers.
Participants in the meeting at the Ihilani are expected to make announcements on progress in international cooperation at the end of the session, the council said.