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.

COVID-19: The Way Forward – Insights from McKinsey & Company

In much of post-lockdown China, urban life is humming. Streets in Beijing and Shanghai are bustling with traffic, smog again shrouds city skylines with the resurgence of economic activity, property sales are bouncing back and a revival in consumer confidence is taking hold. Emerging from monthslong shelter-in-place orders, the nation has seized a large measure of control in containing COVID-19 as it breaks fertile new ground in pandemic response and recovery.

STMicroelectronics Joins Zhaga Consortium

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, today announced that it has become an Associate member of the Zhaga Consortium to advance the deployment of NFC technology in the industrial lighting market.

SmartDV Ships First Design and Verification IP for MIPI RFFE v3.0 Specification

SmartDV™ Technologies is the first vendor to deliver Design and Verification intellectual property (IP) supporting the MIPI RF Front End Control Interface (MIPI RFFE) v3.0 specification, shipping it as the MIPI Alliance announced availability.

Eta Compute Partners with Edge Impulse to Accelerate the Development and Deployment of Machine Learning at the Edge

Eta Compute and Edge Impulse announce that they are partnering to accelerate the development and deployment of machine learning using Eta Compute’s revolutionary ECM3532, the world’s lowest power Neural Sensor Processor, and Edge Impulse, the leading online TinyML platform. The partnership will speed the time-to-market for machine learning in billions of IoT consumer and industrial products where battery capacity has been a roadblock.

STMicroelectronics Boosts Power Efficiency in Space Applications with New Radiation-Hardened Devices

STMicroelectronics has extended its portfolio of radiation-hardened power devices qualified for space applications by introducing new ESCC (European Space Components Coordination) qualified 200V and 400V power rectifiers and SEB[1]-immune Schottky rectifiers at 45V and 150V.

Don’t Touch that Button: Use Voice Instead

The COVID-19 pandemic (caused by SARS-CoV-2) has disrupted lives around the world more than any other catastrophic event in living memory.

Artificial Synapses on Design

Scientists around the world are intensively working on memristive devices, which are capable in extremely low power operation and behave similarly to neurons in the brain. Researchers from the Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA) and the German technology group Heraeus have now discovered how to systematically control the functional behaviour of these elements.

Heilind Electronics and Laird Performance Materials Sign Global Distribution Agreement

Heilind Electronics, a leading distributor of electronic components, announced today the signing of a global distribution agreement with Laird Performance Materials, a portfolio company of privately held Advent International.

Pfeiffer Vacuum Supplies Turbopumps for GANIL Large-Scale Research Facility in France

Pfeiffer Vacuum has received several major orders from the French large-scale research facility GANIL (Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds) (National Large Heavy Ion Accelerator) for the supply of turbopumps and custom vacuum chambers.

Pure Wafer Expands Production Capacity at AZ and CA Facilities Announces New Films Services Group to Meet Semi R&D Needs

Pure Wafer, America’s leading provider of reclaimed wafers and thin films services to the semiconductor manufacturing industry announced today that it has expanded production at its Arizona and California facilities.