Shannon Davis

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Shannon, writes, edits and produces Semiconductor Digest’s news articles, email newsletters, blogs, webcasts, and social media posts. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Huntington University in Huntington, IN. In addition to her years of freelance business reporting, Shannon has also worked in marketing and public relations in the renewable energy and healthcare industries.

Top Five MPU Suppliers Expand Share of Sales to 86% in 2021

New ranking shows long-time leader Intel sliding closer to half the total sales in microprocessors.

Photon-Controlled Diode: An Optoelectronic Device with a New Signal Processing Behavior

In a recent paper published in National Science Review, Chinese scientists report an optoelectronic device with a new signal processing behavior named photon-controlled diode.

More is Better: Epitaxial Multilayer MoS2 Wafers with Promises in High-Performance Transistors

In a paper published in National Science Review, a research team from China achieves the layer-by-layer epitaxy of 4-inch multilayer MoS2 wafers.

Battery Materials Must Evolve to Keep Pace with Societal Needs

Rensselaer Professor Nikhil Koratkar and team find critical advances in nanostructures.

Si2 Names Recipients of Annual Power of Partnerships Award

Technologists from Intel, IBM, Microsoft and Cadence Design Systems are this year’s Silicon Integration Initiative Power of Partnerships Award winners, recognizing the Si2 volunteer team with the most significant contributions to silicon-to-system implementation.

Samsung Begins Chip Production Using 3nm Process Technology with GAA Architecture

Optimized 3nm process achieves 45% reduced power usage, 23% improved performance, and 16% smaller surface area compared to 5nm process.

Breker Verification Systems Joins RISC-V International

Breker Verification Systems, a provider of advanced test content synthesis solutions, including RISC-V Cache Coherency and other SoC integration Verification Intellectual Property (VIP) in the “TrekApps” family, today joined RISC-V International (RVI) as a strategic member.

Renesas Partners with Tata to Accelerate Progress in Advanced Electronics for India and Emerging Markets

These joint endeavors extend the companies’ longstanding relationship as technology and business partners, including the recently announced next-generation EV Innovation Center (NEVIC) jointly established by Renesas and Tata Group’s Tata Elxsi in March 2022. 

Advantest and Singapore Polytechnic Jointly Establish New Test Engineering Center

This is the first time that Advantest is collaborating with an Institute of Higher Learning (IHL) in Singapore.

Imec Shows Path to Line Resistance Halving using Semi-Damascene with High-Aspect-Ratio Processing

This week, at the 2022 IEEE International Interconnect Technology Conference (IITC 2022), imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, presents options to reduce the metal line resistance at tight metal pitches, mitigating the resistance/capacitance (RC) increase of future interconnects using direct metal patterning.