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.

Professors from Stanford, UC Berkeley to be Honored for Excellence in Semiconductor Research

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) today announced the winners of the 2020 SIA-SRC University Research Awards.

Mipsology Zebra on Xilinx FPGA Beats GPUs, ASICs for ML Inference Efficiency

Machine learning software innovator Mipsology today announced that its Zebra AI inference accelerator achieved the highest efficiency based on the latest MLPerf inference benchmarking.

BrainChip Demonstrates How Its Akida Technology Is Delivering the Next-Generation of AI at the Edge at First-Ever AI Field Day

BrainChip Holdings Ltd., a leading provider of ultra-low power high performance AI technology, today announced its participation at the AI Field Day 1 virtual event November 18-20.

STMicroelectronics and Schneider Electric Reveal Advanced People-Counting Solution using Artificial Intelligence on STM32 Microcontroller

STMicroelectronics and Schneider Electric are demonstrating a prototype IoT sensor that enables new building-management services and efficiency gains by understanding building-occupancy levels and usage.

No Losses: Scientists Stuff Graphene With Light

Physicists from MIPT and Vladimir State University, Russia, have achieved a nearly 90% efficiency converting light energy into surface waves on graphene. They relied on a laser-like energy conversion scheme and collective resonances. The paper came out in Laser & Photonics Reviews.

Camtek Receives Over $20 Million in Orders for Inspection & Metrology Systems From Several Manufacturers

Camtek Ltd., today announced that in the last ten days it received orders totaling over $20 million for the inspection and metrology of Advanced Packaging, Compound Semiconductors, CMOS Image Sensors and RF devices from several Semiconductors manufacturers.

Manchester Group Discover New Family of Quasiparticles in Graphene-Based Materials

A group of researchers led by Sir Andre Geim and Dr Alexey Berdyugin at The University of Manchester have discovered and characterised a new family of quasiparticles named ‘Brown-Zak fermions’ in graphene-based superlattices.

Researchers Make Key Advance for Printing Circuitry on Wearable Fabrics

Electronic shirts that keep the wearer comfortably warm or cool, as well as medical fabrics that deliver drugs, monitor the condition of a wound and perform other tasks, may one day be manufactured more efficiently thanks to a key advance by Oregon State University researchers.

Velodyne Lidar Unveils Breakthrough Solid State Sensor for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Autonomy

Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today debuted its latest innovation in its broad array of lidar sensors, the Velarray H800.

Park Systems Announces NanoScientific Symposium Asia Nov. 24-25, 2020

Park Systems and NanoScientific Publications announce NanoScientific Symposium Asia, which will be held virtually on Nov. 24-25, 2020. The event is for nanoscience researchers and scientists to learn about the latest studies being formed using SPM and is sponsored by Physics World and Nanotechnology World Association.