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.

Micron Reinforces Commitment to Advance Equal Opportunity for All in Annual Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Report

Micron Technology, Inc. today announced the release of its third annual diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) report, demonstrating advances with regionalized commitments and initiatives across the U.S., Asia and Europe.

Wet Copper Deposition Materials for ICs and Packages

TECHCET announces that the global market for wet metal deposition materials including electro-chemical deposition (ECD) and plating (ECP) chemistry blends in 2020 is forecast to be US$63 million.

CEA-Leti and Davey Bickford Enaex Extend R&D Collaboration To Bring More Digital Solutions to Mining and Blasting Industries That Improve Safety for Workers and Increase Productivity

CEA-Leti and Davey Bickford Enaex, a worldwide leader in blasting solutions, have extended their joint laboratory for three years to continue development of innovative radio-frequency communication systems that remotely control networks of high-tech wireless electronic detonators.

Kandou Raises $92.3 Million in Series C Funding

Kandou, an innovative leader in high-speed, energy-efficient, chip link solutions, today closed its Series C round of funding, resulting in $92.3 million raised in the round.

Coventor and CMC Microsystems Expand Collaboration to Further Enable Innovation in Semiconductor and Microsystem Technology Development

Coventor, a Lam Research Company, and CMC Microsystems, manager of Canada’s National Design Network (CNDN), today announced an expanded technology sharing collaboration, bringing advanced software platforms to Canadian academic and startup organizations.

Professors from Stanford, UC Berkeley to be Honored for Excellence in Semiconductor Research

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) today announced the winners of the 2020 SIA-SRC University Research Awards.

Mipsology Zebra on Xilinx FPGA Beats GPUs, ASICs for ML Inference Efficiency

Machine learning software innovator Mipsology today announced that its Zebra AI inference accelerator achieved the highest efficiency based on the latest MLPerf inference benchmarking.

BrainChip Demonstrates How Its Akida Technology Is Delivering the Next-Generation of AI at the Edge at First-Ever AI Field Day

BrainChip Holdings Ltd., a leading provider of ultra-low power high performance AI technology, today announced its participation at the AI Field Day 1 virtual event November 18-20.

STMicroelectronics and Schneider Electric Reveal Advanced People-Counting Solution using Artificial Intelligence on STM32 Microcontroller

STMicroelectronics and Schneider Electric are demonstrating a prototype IoT sensor that enables new building-management services and efficiency gains by understanding building-occupancy levels and usage.

No Losses: Scientists Stuff Graphene With Light

Physicists from MIPT and Vladimir State University, Russia, have achieved a nearly 90% efficiency converting light energy into surface waves on graphene. They relied on a laser-like energy conversion scheme and collective resonances. The paper came out in Laser & Photonics Reviews.