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.

JEDEC Recognizes Nantero’s Bill Gervasi with Award of Excellence

JEDEC Solid State Technology Association announced today that Bill Gervasi, Principal Systems Architect, Nantero, has been presented with the JEDEC Award of Excellence.

SandBox Semiconductor Receives the NSF TECP Award to Support a Strategic Collaboration With Siemens in Virtual Semiconductor Manufacturing

SandBox Semiconductor, a rising innovator in predictive AI process optimization tools was awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation under the Technology Enhancement for Commercial Partnerships (TECP) SBIR program.

Valens Semiconductor & Sumitomo Electric Collaborate on MIPI A-PHY Technology and Deployments

Valens Semiconductor and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. announced today that they are collaborating in the field of A-PHY technology and deployments.

FormFactor Opens New Manufacturing Facility to Expand Capacity for Semiconductor Wafer Probe Card Production

FormFactor, Inc., a semiconductor test and measurement supplier, today announced the opening of a new manufacturing facility, expanding its Livermore, California campus.

AmpliTech Completes Acquisition of Spectrum Semiconductor Materials

AmpliTech Group, Inc. announced today that it has completed the purchase of the assets and operations of Spectrum Semiconductor Materials Inc.

Dr. Anirudh Devgan Honored With 2021 Phil Kaufman Award

Dr. Anirudh Devgan, President and CEO of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has been selected to receive the 2021 Phil Kaufman Award for Distinguished Contributions to Electronic System Design.

CES 2022: CEA-Leti to Unveil World’s-First Multi-Sensor System For Knee-Implants That Improves Surgery Accuracy, Detects Infection Early and Enhances Rehabilitation

CEA-Leti, a CEA microelectronics research institute, will introduce a smart, integrated multi-sensor system for knee implants at CES 2022 that can help surgeons more accurately position the implant, dramatically reduce risk of follow-up surgery, and enhance rehabilitation.

Kandou Closes $75 Million in Series D Funding

Kandou today closed its Series D round of funding, resulting in $75 million raised in the round. 

SiPearl Awarded a €17.5M Funding from the European Innovation Council Accelerator Program

SiPearl, the company designing the high-performance and low-power microprocessor for European exascale supercomputers, has been awarded a €2.5 M grant and up to €15M in equity investments from the European Commission EIC Accelerator program.

Fabricating Stable, High-mobility Transistors for Next-generation Display Technologies

The trade-off between carrier mobility and stability in amorphous oxide semiconductor-based thin film transistors (TFTs) has been finally overcome by researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) in an ingeniously fabricated indium tin zinc oxide TFT.