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.

OnScale is Providing Free Cloud Core-Hours to Customers to Mitigate Engineering Productivity Loss Related to the Coronavirus Outbreak

OnScale, the global leader in Cloud Engineering Simulation, today announces that it will provide free cloud core-hours to customers to promote customer safety and mitigate any productivity loss due to office shutdowns. OnScale has already officially closed its global offices to protect the health and safety of OnScale employees.

Room-temperature Bonded Interface Improves Cooling of Gallium Nitride Devices

A room-temperature bonding technique for integrating wide bandgap materials such as gallium nitride (GaN) with thermally conducting materials such as diamond could boost the cooling effect on GaN devices and facilitate better performance through higher power levels, longer device lifetime, improved reliability, and reduced manufacturing costs.

Pathways Toward Realizing the Promise of All-Solid-State Batteries

In a review article published in the March 2020 issue of Nature Nanotechnology, nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego offer a research roadmap that includes four challenges that need to be addressed in order to advance a promising class of batteries–all-solid-state batteries–to commercialization. This article summarizes the team’s work to tackle these challenges over the past three years, which have been reported in several peer-reviewed articles published in various journals.

Finding Wafers Just Got Much Easier

Inseto launches comprehensive online store for selecting and ordering silicon, silica, glass, coated and SOI wafers.

Pfeiffer Vacuum Introduces Extremely Quiet, Dry Pumps

The HiScroll models from Pfeiffer Vacuum’s new range of scroll pumps are oil-free, hermetically sealed vacuum pumps with high nominal pumping speeds of 6 to 20 m³/h. The new pumps are characterized by their compact design and quiet, low-vibration operation (<47 dB[A], and <42 dB[A] in stand-by mode).

MISUMI to Relocate North American HQ to Schaumburg Corporate Center

MISUMI, a global supplier of configurable components, is excited to announce the relocation of its North American corporate headquarters to Glenstar’s Schaumburg Corporate Center located at 1475 E. Woodfield Road. Located adjacent to Woodfield Mall, the total property is a 1 million-square-foot, three-building office complex. MISUMI plans to take occupancy in June 2020.

Water-Free Way to Make MXenes Could Mean New Uses for the Promising Nanomaterials

Ten years after producing the first sample of the now widely studied family of nanomaterials, called MXenes, Drexel University researchers have discovered a different way to make the atom-thin material that presents a number of new opportunities for using it. The new discovery removes water from the MXene-making process, which means the materials can be used in applications in which water is a contaminant or hampers performance, such as battery electrodes and next-generation solar cells.

Ranovus Announces a Strategic Collaboration with IBM, TE Connectivity and Senko Advanced Components

Ranovus Inc. (“RANOVUS”) today announced a strategic collaboration with IBM Inc. (“IBM”), TE Connectivity (“TE”) and Senko Advanced Components, Inc (“SENKO”), leading providers of multi-terabit interconnect solutions, to create an ecosystem to design and manufacture multi-vendor solutions for Co-Packaged Optics applications in data center.

Everspin Technologies and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Extend MRAM Joint Development Agreement to 12nm

Everspin Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRAM), the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of Magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM), today announced an amendment of its Spin-transfer Torque (STT-MRAM) joint development agreement (JDA) with GLOBALFOUNDRIES® (GF®), the world’s leading specialty foundry.

Keysight Validates Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Advanced Data Analytics Software in Nokia’s 5G Base Station Manufacturing Processes

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, has validated an innovative new software approach, leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced data analytics, in Nokia’s 5G base station manufacturing processes, significantly improving test efficiency.