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.

ACM Research Launches Furnace Tool for Power Device Industry to Address IGBT Process Challenges

ACM Research, Inc. introduced alloy anneal capabilities for its Ultra Fn Furnace tool to extend its furnace product line to power device manufacturers.

Onto Innovation Announces First Customer Qualification of New Aspect IRCD System

Onto Innovation Inc. today announced the first customer acceptance and purchase of its new product, the Aspect System, at one of the top three memory manufacturers of leading-edge 3D-NAND devices.

North American Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts November 2020 Billings

North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $2.61 billion in billings worldwide in November 2020 (three-month average basis), according to the November Equipment Market Data Subscription (EMDS) Billings Report published today by SEMI.

Synaptics Expands into Low Power Edge AI Applications with New Katana Platform

Synaptics Incorporated, today announced the Katana Edge AI platform, addressing a growing industry gap for solutions that enable battery powered devices for consumer and industrial IoT markets.

France Awards Soitec-led European Consortium for Semiconductor Innovation

The French Government has granted the REFERENCE consortium led by Soitec, a world leader in semiconductor materials based in France, the “Étoile de l’Europe” (“Star of Europe”) award for innovation in telecommunication.

Aspinity Releases Analog Voice-First Evaluation Kit for Battery-Operated Devices

Aspinity, a pioneer in ultra-low-power analog machine learning processors, launched its Voice-First Evaluation Kit (EVK2), a complete hardware/software development kit that demonstrates Aspinity’s ultra-low-power edge processing solution for analog voice activity detection and preroll.

MagnaChip Introduces First Power Management IC for Laptops with UHD Display Panels

MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation, announced today a new line of power management integrated circuits (PMIC) by introducing its first UHD display panel PMIC for laptops.

CEA-Leti Scientists Present In-Memory Computing Pathways for Edge-AI & Neural Networks with 3D Architectures & Resistive-RAM

CEA-Leti presented two papers this week at IEDM 2020 that confirm the advantages of combining 3D architectures and resistive-random-access-memories (RRAM) for in-memory computing (IMC), and their applications for Edge-AI and neural networks.

SUEZ Unveils New Sievers TOC Analyzers for Online Ultrapure Water Monitoring

SUEZ – Water Technologies & Solutions announced the launch of two new Total Organic Carbon (TOC) online analyzers, the M500 for life sciences and the M500e for microelectronics markets.

CEA Combines 3D Integration Technologies & Many-Core Architectures to Enable High-Performance Processors That Will Power Exascale Computing

In an invited paper at IEDM 2020, CEA-List and CEA-Leti, research institutes at CEA, presented their technologies for achieving exascale-level, high- performance computing (HPC).