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.

Intel Launches $1 Billion Fund to Build a Foundry Innovation Ecosystem

Intel today announced a new $1 billion fund to support early-stage startups and established companies building disruptive technologies for the foundry ecosystem.

Toshiba to Expand Power Semiconductor Production Capacity With 300-Millimeter Wafer Fabrication Facility

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation today announced that it will construct a new 300-milimeter wafer fabrication facility for power semiconductors at its main discrete semiconductor production base, Kaga Toshiba Electronics Corporation, in Ishikawa Prefecture.

NIST Researchers Resurrect and Improve a Technique for Detecting Transistor Defects

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have revived and improved a once-reliable technique to identify and count defects in transistors, the building blocks of modern electronic devices such as smartphones and computers.

The Micron Foundation Commits Over $1 Million to Promote Greater Diversity in Engineering in Idaho

Micron Technology, Inc. and the Micron Foundation today announced more than $1 million in grants to the colleges of engineering at Boise State University and the University of Idaho (U of I).

Magnetic ATE Company Hprobe Expands Presence into Korea with Order from Major Semiconductor Manufacturer and Signs with Woowon for Distribution

Hprobe, a provider of turnkey semiconductor Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) for magnetic devices, today announced the receipt of a significant order from a tier-1 semiconductor manufacturer in Korea for a wafer-level magnetic tester.

SIA Commends House Passage of Critical Semiconductor Manufacturing and Research Investments

House and Senate must now reach agreement on joint competitiveness legislation containing CHIPS Act investments that can be passed by both chambers and signed into law by President Biden.

American Semiconductor Academy (ASA) Initiative and SEMI Partner to Bolster Microelectronics Industry Talent Pool

SEMI and the American Semiconductor Academy (ASA) Initiative, a collaborative national education network of faculty at universities and colleges across the U.S. who are engaged in semiconductor research and education, today announced a partnership to build a comprehensive workforce development program designed to close the microelectronics industry’s widening talent gap.

Intrinsic Announces Breakthrough as Memory Devices Successfully Demonstrated at Commercially Relevant Nanometre Scale

Intrinsic Semiconductor Technologies Ltd today announces that it has successfully scaled its silicon oxide-based resistive random access memory devices (RRAM) and demonstrated electrical performance characteristics that will enable their use as high-performance, low-cost, embedded, non-volatile memory in logic devices at advanced processing nodes.

Order for a Research / Pilot Production MBE Machine in Asia

RIBER, a manufacturer of Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) equipment serving the semiconductor industry, is announcing an order for an automatic MBE system in Asia.

ASCA Acquires the World’s Largest Intellectual Property Portfolio for Printed Organic Photovoltaics

ASCA – an ARMOR Group company, the organic photovoltaics (OPV) global leader, has purchased the most relevant device- and module-related intellectual property (IP) portfolio regarding printed OPV.