Study Group: Semiconductor Capital Equipment Evaluators(?)
Council Members in this Study Group: 38
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Leading Experts in this Study Group
President
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation Americas (SMIC)
Sam Wang, Ph.D., is the President at Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation Americas, a wafer foundry. He is also the venture partner of Asenqua venture, a venture fund based in the Silicon Valley. He serves as the Board Advisor of Sunsil Inc., a semiconductor firm representing wafer...
Mel BurksFounder / Senior Partner
Tech Quest Research, LLC
Mel Burks is currently Founder and Senior Partner at Tech Quest Research, LLC. Mr. Burks has over 25 years of experience in process engineering and semiconductor manufacturing from the Front-end to the Back-end. He is experienced in all wafer fabrication processes and knowledgeable on advanced process...
Managing Director
ISB Ventures
Israel Beinglass, Ph.D., is the Managing Director at ISB Ventures. He was most recently (until 2006) the Chief Technology Officer & Chief Marketing Officer at Applied Materials. He is now working as an independent consultant to the industry. Dr. Beinglass has over 25 years of experience in semiconductor...
Principal
Wireless Tech
Mark Oskowsky has formed his own hi-tech development consulting firm exclusively focused on wireless technology after spending over 25 years in various engineering and management positions at cellular, satellite, semiconductor and wireless telecommunication companies...
Member of Technical Staff
Spansion LLC
Ankur Agarwal is a member of technical staff at Spansion, a former subsidiary of Advanced Micro Devices specializing in flash memories. He has authored patents in process technology. He specializes in dielectric etch and advanced etch process development and is experienced in developing new etch processes...
Thomas CoughlinPresident
Coughlin Associates
Tom Coughlin is the President of Coughlin Associates, Inc. He is an acknowledged authority on data storage products including storage devices, network attached storage, storage area networks, and storage applications. Dr. Coughlin has held senior engineering and management positions at companies such...
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Samsung entering into the foundry business could cause a major shift in the ranking of the three big foundries: TSMC. UMC and Chartered. Up to this point there were many rumors on some major fabless companies (TI, Qualcom) evaluating Samsung foundry capability. Samsung known to be very...
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