Shannon Davis

News and Web Editor

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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.

Winning the Global Race for Semiconductor Technology with Virtual Fabrication

Semiconductor process development is no easy task, with each generation of devices more difficult and expensive to create. Traditional cycles of build-and-test development are becoming obsolete, since they are too expensive and time-consuming for the most advanced processes.

Oculi Inc Joins Silicon Catalyst Semiconductor Incubator

Silicon Catalyst, the world’s only incubator focused exclusively on accelerating solutions in silicon announces the admission of Oculi into the semiconductor industry’s highly acclaimed program.

Synopsys and Samsung Release Certified 3nm Gate-All-Around AMS Design Reference Flow for Early Design Starts

Synopsys, Inc. announced the release of the 3-nanometer (nm) gate-all-around (GAA) AMS Design Reference Flow, which provides designers a complete front-to-back design methodology for designing analog and mixed-signal circuits using the Synopsys Custom Design Platform.

Silicon Wafer Shipments Slip in Third Quarter 2020 but Strong for Year

Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments contracted 0.5% to 3,135 million square inches in the third quarter of 2020 compared to the second quarter of the year but registered a 6.9% increase from the 2,932 million square inches shipped one year ago during the same quarter.

Breakthrough Quantum-Dot Transistors Create a Flexible Alternative to Conventional Electronics

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and their collaborators from the University of California, Irvine have created fundamental electronic building blocks out of tiny structures known as quantum dots and used them to assemble functional logic circuits.

NUS Researchers Invent Flexible and Highly Reliable Sensor

Real-time health monitoring and sensing abilities of robots require soft electronics, but a challenge of using such materials lie in their reliability. Unlike rigid devices, being elastic and pliable makes their performance less repeatable. The variation in reliability is known as hysteresis.

Semtech Supports New IoT Solutions for Cloud-Managed Asset and Facility Monitoring Developed by Cisco

Semtech Corporation today announced that the LoRaWAN protocol, developed and managed by the LoRa Alliance, is providing new applications of IoT connectivity for new smart industrial control operations.

Despite Billions in Investment, Outdated Innovation Processes Threaten to Derail AI Progress

While manufacturing companies have been investing in AI heavily, the results have been mixed. Companies have been hampered because they have been using traditional processes to manage AI innovations.

Smart Cities to Create Business Opportunities Worth $2.46 Trillion by 2025, says Frost & Sullivan

The uncertain post-pandemic situation will compel smart cities to focus more on developing collaborative, data-driven infrastructure to provide appropriate healthcare facilities as well as public security services.

STMicroelectronics Works with Alifax on Rapid, Cost-Efficient Point-of-Care Medical Testing

STMicroelectronics and Alifax S.r.l have worked together on a rapid, cost-efficient portable solution that will be available from Alifax, for point-of-care molecular diagnostic detection using highly reliable real-time Polymerase Chain Reactions (PCR) to amplify genetic material (RNA and DNA) in patient samples.