Shannon Davis

News and Web Editor

6947 Articles0 Comments

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.

A Critical Review Of Graphene Quantum Dots And Their Application In Biosensors

In a paper published in NANO, researchers from Hubei, China discuss the top-down and bottom-up strategies for the synthesis of Graphene quantum dots (GQDs).

Light-Induced Twisting of Weyl Nodes Switches on Giant Electron Current

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and collaborators at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Alabama at Birmingham have discovered a new light-induced switch that twists the crystal lattice of the material, switching on a giant electron current that appears to be nearly dissipationless.

North America Advanced Packaging Market 2026 – A $5 Billion Revenue Opportunity

The revenue of North America advanced packaging market crossed $3 billion in the year 2019 and is predicted to touch 5 billion-dollar mark till 2026, growing at 7% between the years 2020 and 2026; as per the research done by Graphical Research.

Cadence to Acquire NUMECA to Expand System Analysis Capabilities with Computational Fluid Dynamics

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire NUMECA International, a leader in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), mesh generation, multi-physics simulation and optimization.

Semtech and Digital Matter Announce New Battery-Powered Indoor/Outdoor Asset Tracker using LoRa Edge

Semtech Corporation announced Digital Matter has utilized Semtech’s LoRa Edge™ asset management platform to develop the Yabby Edge, an innovative battery-powered tracking device for indoor/outdoor asset management.

EV Group Establishes Customer Training Facility at Corporate Headquarters

EV Group (EVG) today announced that it has established the EVG Academy, a training facility for customers that provides technical training on all classes of EVG equipment as well as on EVG’s CIM Framework software platform in an optimized environment.

Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Grew 7.3% in 2020

Following a decline of 12% in 2019, worldwide semiconductor revenue rebounded in 2020 to total $449.8 billion, an increase of 7.3% from 2019, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc.

CMOS-Compatible 3D Ferroelectric Memory with Ultralow Power and High Speed

A POSTECH research team has recently demonstrated a ferroelectric memory that exceedingly surpasses the performance of the conventional flash memory in terms of operation speed, power consumption, and device reliability.

Semiconductor Chip that Detects Exhaled Gas with High Sensitivity at Room Temperature

Third-year doctoral student Toshiaki Takahashi, associate professor Kazuhiro Takahashi, and their research team from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology developed a testing chip using semiconductor micro-machining that can detect volatile gasses in exhaled breath in ppm concentrations at room temperature.

CEA-Leti Reports Machine-Learning Breakthrough that Opens Way to Edge Learning

CEA-Leti scientists have demonstrated a machine-learning technique exploiting what have been previously considered as “non-ideal” traits of resistive-RAM (RRAM) devices, overcoming barriers to developing RRAM-based edge-learning systems.