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.

Plasma-Therm ‘RANKED 1st’ in VLSI 2021 Survey for Etch & Clean Equipment

Plasma-Therm has once again been named the top supplier of etch and clean equipment for semiconductor manufacturing, according to the results of the 2021 VLSIresearch Customer Satisfaction Survey of worldwide semiconductor industry customers.

Rohinni Names Semiconductor Veteran Ryan Cameron CEO

On the heels of two recent technical milestones, Rohinni today announced its new CEO, Ryan Cameron, and that it’s moving its headquarters to Liberty Lake, Washington to increase the team’s engineering space.

Intel Elects Andrea Goldsmith to Board of Directors

Intel Corporation today announced that Andrea Goldsmith, dean of engineering and applied science and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton University, was elected to Intel’s board of directors, effective Sept. 1, 2021.

Researchers Discover a ‘Layer Hall Effect’ in a 2D Topological Axion Antiferromagnet

Researchers have discovered a “layer” Hall effect in a solid state chip constructed of antiferromagnetic manganese bismuth telluride.

Supplyframe Commodity Intelligence Quarterly Points to Increasing Risk and Supply Constraints for Manufacturers

The worldwide shortage of semiconductors is expected to last for years to come amid increasing risk and supply constraints.

Phononic Raises $50 Million Growth Financing from Goldman Sachs Asset Management

To support the global demand for Sustainable innovations that address climate change, Phononic, a developer of solid-state cooling and heating technology, today announced that it has secured a significant growth investment led by $50 million from the Sustainable Investing business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs).

Unilumin and STMicroelectronics Jointly Develop LED Display Using ST’s 60GHz Contactless Connectivity Chip for Advanced Video Solutions

STMicroelectronics and Unilumin, a developer of LED displays based in China, today announced that they have worked together to develop a new Unilumin display using the ST60A2, ST’s 60GHz RF transceiver for advanced high-data-rate contactless-transfer solutions.

Main Attraction: Scientists Create World’s Thinnest Magnet

The development of an ultrathin magnet that operates at room temperature could lead to new applications in computing and electronics – such as high-density, compact spintronic memory devices – and new tools for the study of quantum physics.

TESCAN Launches Next Generation AutoSlicer Module for High Throughput TEM Sample Preparation

TESCAN ORSAY HOLDING a.s. announces its latest generation AutoSlicer module for unattended, semi-automated transmission electron microscope (TEM) lamella preparation in semiconductor failure analysis and materials science.

NVIDIA Inference Breakthrough Makes Conversational AI Smarter, More Interactive From Cloud to Edge

NVIDIA today launched TensorRT 8, the eighth generation of the company’s AI software, which slashes inference time in half for language queries — enabling developers to build the world’s best-performing search engines, ad recommendations and chatbots and offer them from the cloud to the edge.