James "Jim" Cantore
President & Chief Analyst, JLC Associates LLC
Member of the Technology Council
Council Member Biography
James Cantore is the President and Chief Analyst at JLC Associates, a technology consulting firm. Mr. Cantore consults on technology, strategic marketing, and market intelligence to information technology, investment, high technology and semiconductor sectors. He has over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor and solar industries. Mr. Cantore specializes in NAND, SanDisk, NOR flash; solid state drives, SSD, STEC; Storage Class memory; phase change memory, STT RAM, MRAM; DRAM; Micron, Samsung, Hynix; Intel, AMD multi-core microprocessors; graphics, nVidia; network processors, Netlogic; DSP; FSL; STM; NXP; Rambus DRAM litigation; Solar PV: a-silicon, c-silicon PV, Thin Film; silicon TV tuners; intellectual property; foundry; 450mm wafer fabs; process roadmaps; front end, back end capital equipment; AMAT, ASML, LRCX; wafer scale TSV packaging; Tessera; back end assembly, test equipment; hard drives; netbooks, mobile internet devices; bill of materials analyses; smartphones. (This is me - Update Profile)
Employment History
- 2003 - present
- President & Chief Analyst, JLC Associates LLC
- 2001 - 2003
- Principal Analyst, ISUPPLI CORPORATION
- 2000 - 2001
- Program Manager, INTERNATIONAL DATA CORPORATION
- 1999 - 1999
- Product Marketing Manager, Micron Technology
- 1992 - 1999
- Market & Business Development Manager , MOSEL VITELIC CORPORATION
- 1990 - 1991
- Business Center Manager, National Semiconductor
- 1988 - 1990
- Business Development Manager, OKI SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
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If We Build It, A 450 mm Wafer Fab, Will Customers Come?
May 7, 2008
James "Jim" Cantore, President & Chief Analyst, JLC Associates LLC
Will industry build 450-mm fabs? | www.eetimes.com
1. New Markets will be created, enabled by the 450mm revolution. 2. Opportunity is there for new equipment strategic alliances with major chip players. 3. Smarter, simpler electronics projects need very intelligent, very large 450mm wafer-based chips.
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How Can AMD Save Itself and Stay Independent? Is Nvidia AMD's Savior?
March 4, 2008
James "Jim" Cantore, President & Chief Analyst, JLC Associates LLC
Nvidia-AMD: Deal or no deal? | www.eetimes.com
1. AMD got itself in a precarious position by failing to execute. 2. Nvidia acquiring AMD is not the solution. Nvidia does not need an AMD headache. Neither aspirin nor anything stronger will help Nvidia. 3. AMD needs financial and engineering resources.
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What's Up With Yet Another Numonyx Delay?
March 3, 2008
James "Jim" Cantore, President & Chief Analyst, JLC Associates LLC
Could it be another Numonyx delay? | www.eetimes.com
1. The NOR market is a money loser, no matter who the players are. 2. If Numonyx, (Intel + STMicroelectronics), was such a great money making proposition it would have been funded months ago. 3. The financial world is well aware that the last big NOR Flash venture between AMD and Fujitsu, Spansion, resulted...
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AMD Looks Uphill: Bluster Dims Lost Luster
February 4, 2008
James "Jim" Cantore, President & Chief Analyst, JLC Associates LLC
AMD: Is The Worst Over? | seekingalpha.com
Does AMD keep close enough tabs on the details? Risk underestimation cripples bold initiatives. Crisp execution and coordination of all the risks is something AMD needs to do better. AMD overpaid for ATI, ran short of cash and had to go overseas for capital.AMD will give up precious market share to...
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GLG Study Groups with James "Jim" Cantore(?)
| Study Group Name | No. Members |
|---|---|
| Semiconductor Experts in GLG Member Programs (California) | 235 |
| Semiconductor Experts in GLG Member Programs (US) | 636 |
| Microprocessor Experts | 150 |
| Flash Memory Experts | 108 |
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