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.

Insight Global Launches Semiconductor Apprenticeship Program to Address Talent Shortages

Insight Global announced the launch of its new U.S. Department of Labor-approved Semiconductor Apprenticeship Acceleration Program (SAAP).

NEO Semiconductor Announces the Development of its 3D X-AI Chip

NEO Semiconductor, a developer of innovative technologies for 3D NAND flash memory and 3D DRAM, announced today the development of its 3D X-AI chip technology, targeted to replace the current DRAM chips inside high bandwidth memory (HBM) to solve data bus bottlenecks by enabling AI processing in 3D DRAM.

Polymatech Electronics Acquires Nisene Technology Group Inc.

Polymatech Electronics, India’s first semiconductor chip maker, has officially announced its acquisition of Nisene Technology Group Inc., California, USA, a company with a 50-year history in the semiconductor industry.

Yongjiang Laboratory Orders Reactive Ion Beam Trimming Equipment from scia Systems

The scia Trim 200 system provides precise surface correction in film and wafer materials using ion beam trimming. The film thickness uniformity can be adjusted up to 0.1 nm.

Global Semiconductor Sales Increase 18.3% in Q2 2024 Compared to Q2 2023

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced global semiconductor industry sales totaled $149.9 billion during the second quarter of 2024, an increase of 18.3% compared to the second quarter of 2023 and 6.5% more than the first quarter of 2024.

Micron Develops Industry’s First PCIe Gen6 Data Center SSD for Ecosystem Enablement

Micron Technology, Inc. today announced it is the first to develop PCIe Gen6 data center SSD technology for ecosystem enablement as part of a portfolio of memory and storage products to support the broad demand for AI.

“Smarter” Semiconductor Technology for Training “Smarter” Artificial Intelligence

To address the limitations of analog hardware memory devices, the research team focused on Electrochemical Random Access Memory (ECRAM), which manage electrical conductivity through ion movement and concentration.

M31 Collaborates With Tower Semiconductor

M31 Technology Corporation announced a collaboration with Tower Semiconductor yielding the successful development of static random access memory (SRAM) and read-only memory (ROM) IP products using a 65nm process.

Tablet Market Finally Moves Past the Pandemic Era with Solid Growth in Q2 2024

Worldwide tablet shipments recorded year-over-year growth of 22.1% in the second quarter of 2024 (2Q24), totaling 34.4 million units, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker.

Kioxia Announces Completion of New Flash Memory Manufacturing Building in Kitakami Plant

Kioxia Corporation today announced that the building construction of Fab2 (K2) of its Kitakami Plant was completed in July.