Council Members in this Study Group: 16
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President
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation Americas (SMIC) ![]()
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 BurksFounder / Senior Partner
Tech Quest Research, LLC ![]()
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...
Managing Director
ISB Ventures ![]()
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,...
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...
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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...
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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