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.

STMicroelectronics Strengthens Support for Efficient Machine Learning in STM32Cube.AI Ecosystem

STMicroelectronics has expanded the variety of machine-learning techniques available to users of the STM32Cube.AI development environment, giving extra flexibility to solve classification, clustering, and novelty-detection challenges as efficiently as possible.

DesignCon Reveals New, Highly Technical Conference Content for the August 16-18 In-Person Event

DesignCon, the event in high-speed communications and system design, today announced a new raft of speakers confirmed for the 2021 edition of DesignCon, set for August 16-18 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.

Integrated Biometrics Names Shawn O’Rourke Chief Executive Officer

Integrated Biometrics (IB), a developer of mobile FBI-certified biometric fingerprint scanners, today announced industry veteran Shawn O’Rourke has been named chief executive officer following the retirement of former CEO Steve Thies.

Mouser Receives Outstanding Partnership Award from Epson America

Epson presented Mouser’s Ben Venator and Melinda Harper with the award for continued increases in market share and customer count.

Skyworks Completes Acquisition of the Infrastructure & Automotive Business of Silicon Labs

Skyworks Solutions, Inc. today announced that it has completed its acquisition of the Infrastructure & Automotive business of Silicon Laboratories Inc.

Winbond and Synopsys Deliver Complete High-Density NAND Flash Memory Solution

Winbond Electronics today announced the successful interoperability of Synopsys’ DesignWare Synchronous Serial Interface (SSI) IP and Winbond’s OctalNAND Flash Memory.

Cadence Extends Digital Design Leadership with ML-based Cerebrus

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced the delivery of the Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer, a new machine learning (ML)-based tool that automates and scales digital chip design.

Coalition Calls on Congress to Invest in Domestic Semiconductor Manufacturing, Research, Design

The SIA – along with a broad coalition of 19 other tech, auto, medical, defense, and other business and labor groups – today in a letter urged Congress to enact funding for the semiconductor manufacturing, research, and design initiatives

‘Wrapping’ Anodes in 3D Carbon Nanosheets: The Next Big Thing in Li-ion Battery Technology

Study finds that anchoring manganese selenide nanoparticles, an anode material, in 3D carbon nanosheets prevents their expansion in lithium-ion batteries.

New Framework Applies Machine Learning to Atomistic Modeling

Northwestern University researchers have developed a new framework using machine learning that improves the accuracy of interatomic potentials — the guiding rules describing how atoms interact — in new materials design.