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Study Group: Thermal Processing Experts

Council Members in this Study Group: 16

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Sam Wang

President
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation Americas (SMIC)
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Dr. Sam Wang has been in the semiconductor industry for over 25 years and is familiar with the supply/demand situation of wafers and advanced semiconductor process technology from photolithography, fab equipment, capex, EDA, mask making, wafer foundries, testing and assembly to market trends, fab utilization,...

Mel Burks, Founder / Senior Partner, Tech Quest Research, LLCMel Burks

Founder / Senior Partner
Tech Quest Research, LLC
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Mel Burks is with Tech Quest Research, LLC, a market research company providing consultation and in-depth analysis and reports. He is an acknowledged engineering professional within the semiconductor, test & measurement and PV sector. He held positions in semiconductor manufacturing and semi-equipment...

Israel Beinglass, Ph.D.

Managing Director
ISB Ventures
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Israel Beinglass, Ph.D, is President of ISB Ventures. He was until 2006, with Applied Materials, where he held various executive level positions. Currently, he is an Independent Consultant to the industry. Dr. Beinglass has over 25 years of experience in semiconductor technology, semiconductor manufacturing,...

Ankur Agarwal

Member of Technical Staff
SPANSION LLC
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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...

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New approach to scaling; no limit - yet.

June 25, 2009

Israel Beinglass, Ph.D., Managing Director, ISB Ventures

Samsung's Kim Claims No Limit to Scaling | www.semiconductor.net

 With all the gloom and doom facing the semiconductor industry and especially the “end of Moore’s law” coming up soon as many experts predicting it is a fresh and encouraging view that Samsung’s Kim presented. Kim, executive vice president and general manager of Samsung's Semiconductor R&D...

A Contender for the Number-Two Spot in Wafer Foundry Services

June 2, 2009

Mel Burks, Founder / Senior Partner, Tech Quest Research, LLC

Chartered Denies Bid From Abu Dhabi’s ATIC | www.semiconductor.net

In 2007, Chartered was ranked number four in revenue market share behind TSMC, UMC and SMIC.   However, an acquisition of Chartered, combined with GlobalFoundries, could conceivably compete for the number two slot challenging UMC but likely not before 2011. An acquisition of Chartered Semiconductor...

Chewing Before Swallowing

March 5, 2009

Nokia considering entering laptop industry | www.reuters.com

Chewing before swallowing. It may be an elephant this time. When Nokia can not swallow the current hot smart phone soup and looking over other table's dish for internet content from PC, it could end up with no meal in either table. Late 90, Intel announced so many times wanting to enter communication...

What is happening with Moore's law

March 2, 2009

Israel Beinglass, Ph.D., Managing Director, ISB Ventures

Where chip industry is headed today | www.mercurynews.com

As Moore one of the fathers of the semiconductor industry turn 80 and the semiconductor industry on the biggest down turn in history, it is great opportunity to put things in perspective from one of the greatest entrepreneur of our time. 

Does Samsung drive into the foundry world

December 8, 2008

Israel Beinglass, Ph.D., Managing Director, ISB Ventures

Samsung foundry poaches Xilinx 40-nm business, says report | www.eetimes.com

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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Members in this Study Group include these company types:

  • Individual/Small Consultancy
  • Market Research Company*
  • Semiconductors - Logic/Processors
  • Independent Consulting Firm
  • Semiconductor Foundry
  • Semiconductors - IP
  • Semiconductors - Memories

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