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.

Engineers Enlist AI to Help Scale Up Advanced Solar Cell Manufacturing

Perovskite materials would be superior to silicon in PV cells, but manufacturing such cells at scale is a huge hurdle. Machine learning can help.

TechInsights Takes Reverse Engineering into the Cloud

At last year’s ISTFA conference, Chris Pawlowicz from TechInsights presented a paper “The Role of Cloud Computing in a Modern Reverse Engineering Workflow at the 5nm Node and Beyond”.

Toppan Acquires Thai Packaging Manufacturer

Toppan entered into a share transfer agreement with Majend Makcs Co., Ltd.

Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Grew 26% in 2021

Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $595 billion in 2021, an increase of 26.3% from 2020, according to final results by Gartner, Inc.

QuickLogic Adds GlobalFoundries 22FDX Process to its Growing List of Australis IP Generator-Based eFPGA IP

QuickLogic Corporation today announced the availability of its first customer-defined eFPGA block targeting the GlobalFoundries 22FDX process, generated via the company’s Australis IP Generator tool.

PhotonDelta Lands €1.1 Billion to Usher in a New Generation of Semiconductor Technology

PhotonDelta, a cross-border ecosystem of photonic chip technology organizations, has, subject to conditions, secured €1.1 billion in public and private investment to transform the Netherlands into the leader of the next generation of semiconductors.

Covalent Metrology Expands its Electron Microscopy Capabilities

Covalent Metrology, a provider of analytical services in North America, announces the installation of two new Thermo Fisher Scientific Helios 5 UC DualBeam focused-ion-beam scanning electron microscopes (FIB-SEMs).

Keysight Enables SK hynix to Speed Semiconductor Memory Technology Development

Memory chip maker uses Keysight’s integrated PCIe test solutions to validate Compute Express Link (CXL) technology.

Graphene-hBN Breakthrough to Spur New LEDs, Quantum Computing

Study uncovers first method for producing high-quality, wafer-scale, single-layer hexagonal boron nitride.

Chinese Companies Hold Only 4% of Global IC Marketshare

U.S. companies captured 54% of the total worldwide IC market in 2021, propelled by a 47% share of IDM sales and a 68% share of fabless sales.