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.

MagnaChip Offers 0.35 micron 700V Ultra-High Voltage Process Technologies for Various System Requirements

MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, announced today it now offers 0.35 micron 700V Ultra-High Voltage process technologies (UHV) suitable for different system requirements for AC-DC converter ICs and LED driver ICs.

Hprobe to Present Breakthrough Technology for Ultra-Fast Magnetic Testing of MRAM Devices above 2 Tesla

Hprobe, a provider of turnkey semiconductor Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) for magnetic devices, will present at the MRAM Developer Day 2019*, a new technology of magnetic generator for ultra-fast testing time (less than one second) of Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) for Spin Transfer Torque (STT) MRAM devices under perpendicular magnetic field at above 2 Tesla.

Wafer Backgrinding Tape Market to Reach $261.42 Mn, Globally, by 2026 at 4.9% CAGR

Rise in demand for ultra-thin wafers, increase in need for wafer fabrication, surge in in focus toward wafer surface protection during grinding process, and high-end development in the semiconductor industry propel the growth of the global wafer backgrinding tape market.

Synthesizing Single-Crystalline Hexagonal Graphene Quantum Dots

A KAIST team has designed a novel strategy for synthesizing single-crystalline graphene quantum dots, which emit stable blue light.

Experimental Observation of a New Class of Materials: Excitonic Insulators

Scientists make first observation of an ‘excitonic insulator’, an exotic state first predicted in 1960s.

Sage Microelectronics and Everspin Partner to Bring Spin-transfer Torque MRAM to Next Generation Enterprise SSD Devices

Everspin Technologies, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of Magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM) persistent memory solutions, announced its partnership with Sage Microelectronics Corporation.

Silvaco Appoints Babak Taheri as New Chief Executive Officer

Company promotes CTO and EVP of Products, Dr. Babak Taheri to be Chief Executive Officer.

SEMI Urges Restraint by Japan and Korea in Light of Recent Trade Actions

On July 1st, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) announced updated licensing policies and procedures on the export and transfer of controlled items and their relevant technologies to the Republic of Korea (ROK). METI’s stated purpose for the actions were “in order to ensure appropriate implementation of export control.”

Light For the Nanoworld

Quantum light sources pave the way for optical circuits.

MagnaChip Surpasses the 500 Million Milestone in Cumulative Shipments of Display Driver ICs for OLED Screens

Company was first to begin mass production of OLED DDICs in 2007 and continues to innovate.