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.

America Projected to Triple Semiconductor Manufacturing Capacity by 2032

U.S. forecast to increase its domestic chip manufacturing by 203% in the decade following enactment of the CHIPS and Science Act—and expand its share of the world’s total fab capacity for the first time in decades.

AI and Holography Bring 3D Augmented Reality to Regular Glasses

Combining advances in display technologies, holographic imaging, and artificial intelligence, engineers at Stanford say they have produced a leap forward for augmented reality.

AMD Receives IEEE 2024 Corporate Innovation Award for Leadership in Chiplet Design

AMD received the prestigious 2024 Corporate Innovation Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) during a May 3 ceremony in Boston.

Growing Colorado’s Semiconductor Industry: New Grant Program Looks to Expand Industry into New Regions of Colorado

Today, Governor Polis and the Global Business Development Division of the Colorado Office of Economic Development & International Trade (OEDIT) announced the Colorado CHIPS Community Support grant program to grow Colorado’s semiconductor industry.

First-Quarter Global Semiconductor Sales Increase 15.2% Year-to-Year; March Sales Tick Down 0.6% Month-to-Month

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced worldwide sales of semiconductors totaled $137.7 billion during the first quarter of 2024, an increase of 15.2% compared to the first quarter of 2023 but 5.7% less than the fourth quarter of 2023.

New Super-Pure Silicon Chip Opens Path to Powerful Quantum Computers

Researchers at the Universities of Melbourne and Manchester have invented a breakthrough technique for manufacturing highly purified silicon that brings powerful quantum computers a big step closer.

GIST Researchers Develop Nanotechnology for Creating Wafer-Scale Nanoparticle Monolayers in Seconds

The nature-inspired scalable nanoparticle transfer technique leads to the quick and efficient creation of mono-layered nanoparticle assemblies.

Power Integrations to Acquire the Assets of Odyssey Semiconductor

Power Integrations today announced an agreement to acquire the assets of Odyssey Semiconductor Technologies (OTCQB: ODII), a developer of vertical gallium-nitride (GaN) transistor technology.

Advanced Energy Introduces Intelligent, Fully Water-Cooled DC Power Supply

Ascent AMS II power supply with embedded IoT software facilitates innovation and increased productivity for industrial thin film deposition processes.

2023 Global Semiconductor Materials Market Revenue Declines From 2022 Record High, SEMI Reports

Global semiconductor materials market revenue in 2023 contracted 8.2% to $66.7 billion from the market record of $72.7 billion set in 2022, SEMI reported today.