Study Group: Semiconductor Capital Equipment Experts(?)
Council Members in this Study Group: 145
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VP of ASIC and Design Solutions
INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
Hussein Fawaz is VP of ASIC and Design Solutions (ADS) at Infineon Technologies A.G. in Munich, Germany. Since July of 2003, he has managed a team of 200 engineers, business development and operations staff...
Principal
Independent Consultant (Dieter Mackowiak)
Dieter Mackowiak is a Senior Executive Advisor to global Semiconductor and Electronics companies working more than 30 years in this industry. Previously, Mr. Mackowiak was the Senior Vice President at Samsung Semiconductor USA and an Executive Advisor to the President of Samsung USA. He specializes...
James "Jim" CantorePresident
JLC Associates
Jim Cantore is President and Chief Analyst at JLC Associates. He provides technology and strategic marketing consulting, special projects and market intelligence services to information technology, high technology and semiconductor sectors. He has over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry....
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...
Senior Director IT
OSI Systems, Inc.
Ralph Behar is the Sr. Director IT of OSI Systems, Inc, a vertically integrated, worldwide provider of security and inspection systems, medical monitoring and anesthesia systems, and optoelectronic devices and value-added subsystems. He is an acknowledged authority on mini-computers, security, data...
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...
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Industry consolidation in this case will not lead to a reduction in available products in the short term, so is of little immediate benefit to the industry as a whole. Verigy will be the strongest out of the remaining SOC test companies as they alone benefit from the economics of single platform,...
§ By some estimates there are over 50 companies currently offering products that they call solid state drives (SDDs) § Many of these products have been designed hastily and some of them show no improvement in benchmarking tests vs. hard disk drive metrics § There...
* There are rumors that Western Digital is working on a 20,000 RPM Raptor drive * Other HDD companies such as Seagate, Fujitsu and others are also working on improving rotational as well as track change drive latencies * SSDs are starting to compete against HDDs for performance oriented...
* Nintendo and InPhase are apparently doing some joint work on holographic storage * InPhase has been pursuing a holographic storage system (primarily for write once archive applications) for several years * Any holographic storage product likely will not be in a Nintendo game system for...
* SanDisk recently revealed a proposal for creating a single metric representing the expected lifetime of a solid state drive * The SanDisk metric is called “Longterm Data Endurance” or LDE * The SanDisk proposal comes at a time that several organizations such as IDEMA and JEDEC are discussing...
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