Semiconductor Consulting

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• Expert witness

• Patent litigation

• Circuits, Processes

• Devices (CMOS, BICMOS)

• Flash memory (NAND or NOR)

• EEPROM memory

• DRAM memory

• SRAM memory

• Manufacturing (Wafer Fabrication)

• Processes (oxidation gas, polysilicon, plasma, etch, lithography, diffusion, metal, planarization, grove, trench)

• Process Flow (Sub-Micron)

• Chip Measurement (Test Chip)

• Analog technology

• Digital technology

Flash News -NAND, NOR, EEPROM, Hybrid Disk Drive (HDD) or SSD

• Google Nexus One Carries $174.15 Materials Cost, iSuppli Teardown Reveals
• IEDM 2009 Preview
• Semiconductor IC Ranking Q3 2009 (fast growth at Samsung, Toshiba, Hynix, Micron)
• Semiconductor IC Ranking Q2 2009(Climbing TSMC, Hynix, MediaTek Droping AMD, Freescale, Fujitsu)
• Intel’s New SSD X25 Reviews and Benchmarks

Intel Developer Forum - September 2009

• Apple iPhone 3GS Teardown (Reverse Engineering) of Chip Components and Software Capabilities
• SSD Market Share and Sales with Breakdown by Density
• Palm Pre Teardown

Flash Summit - August 2009

• Semiconductor Companies Q1 2009 Market Shares
• DRAM and NAND Q1 2009 Market Shares
• SandForce Brings MLC to Solid State Drives (SSD)
• Long Term Trends in the NOR and NAND Markets
• Fusion-io Super Fast NAND Flash Storage Using PCIe for Enterprise Market
• Faster Cheaper Solid-State Hard Drive
• ISSCC 2009
• 15 Technology Challenges for 22-nm Node
• Semiconductor Industry Rankings for First Three Quarters of 2008
• SanDisk's ExtremeFFS - New Flash Management System for Improving SSD Performance and Reliability
• Samsung Buying Sandisk? (Update)
• Samsung Buying Sandisk?
• Learning Curve Leads to Shakeout in SSD Market

• Second Quarter 2008 NAND rankings

• Intel's SSD Drives

• Samsung Electronics and Sun Microsystems Increased 5x Endurance of Solid State Drives (SSD) with 8 Gbit Single-Level-Cell (SLC)

• Demand for NAND Flash Memory for Handsets Doubles its Share of Market, Making up the Biggest Share of NAND Market

• Update - Apple’s iPhone 3G Semiconductor Parts

• Leave Laptop at Home and Travel with USB Key Drive Instead

• Seagate Technology, the World's Largest Maker of Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) Sues STEC, a Small Solid-State Drives (SSD) Maker

• Faster SSD Appearing in the Market (estimate 200MB/sec)

• iPod Touch Components likely to be in Future of the iPod line - iSuppli Tear Down

• Flash Memory and SSD Reliability - Comments by Intel and Samsung

• 2008 Semiconductor Industry Growth and 2007 Rankings and Revenues - iSuppli

• Intel, Micron New ONFi 2.0 Interface Boost the Data Transfer Rate of NAND Flash-Memory 5x

• ISSCC 2008 Highlights

• Intel and STMicroelectronics Shipping Functional Prototype of Phase-Change Memory (PCM)

• IC Semiconductor's 2008 Growth Forecasts for PCs, Memories, and Phones from Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS)

• Counterfeit Part's Impacts on the Semiconductor Industry

• Samsung, Toshiba Share OneNAND and LBA-NAND Flash Specs to Improve Supply Availability

• IEDM Technical Program - 2007

• iPhone Semiconductor Components

• Chip Makers Must Shift from Fabs to Systems - Infineon CEO

• Memory Chip Architecture Development - Harnessing Multiple Cores for Parallel Execution

• Flash Drive is Surpassing Hard Drive Usage in Portable Video Players

• NVMHCI Standard for NAND Flash Module Controllers in Notebooks, Desktops, and Servers

    Flash Summit Keynote Speakers - August 2007

• Sandisk: E. Harari - NAND Center Stage

• Flash Technology in Computing Devices - Kevin Kettler / Dell CTO

• The Evolving Role of Flash in Memory Subsystems - Greg Komoto / Intel

• SSD The Next Killer App in NAND Flash - Jim Elliott / Samsung

• HDD & SSD Coexistence in a Growing Opportunity - Jeff Burke / Segate

    More Flash News

• Samsung Develops a 4GB MCP (Multi-Chip Package) Memory for Handsets

• Benefits of Venture With Intel: Q&A with Bob Krysiak, VP of STMicroelectronics

• Intel, STMicroelectronics and Francisco Partners announce flash memory joint venture

• Mosaid Claims New Flash Interface Offers 10x Boost

• Flash NAND Drive's Demand for PC and Laptops - from iSuppli

• Samsung Electronics has Begun Production of a 16 Gbyte NAND Flash Memory Chip

• The Impact of iPhone and iPod Products and the Shift from SLC to MLC Cells on NAND Inventory

• 2006 Semiconductor Mobile Phone Flash Market Share Ranking by Revenues

• Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) Group Introduced a Chip-level Interface Standard for NAND Flash Memory

• iPhone's NAND Flash is 26% of Manufacturing Cost

• SanDisk Introduces 32GB SSD 1.8-inch Solid State Drive (SSD) as a Drop-in Replacement for the Standard Mechanical Hard Disk Drive

• Dramatic Increase in Demand for Memory in Handsets is due to Music-Enabled Cellphone, says IMS Research

• Vista will be Optimized using Hybrid Disk Drive (or HDD)

• Vista Operating System Increases Boot Up Speed by using USB Drive, External Memory Device (EMD), and Hybrid Hard Drive (HDD). This will Increase Flash Memory Growth

• NAND Flash Market Will Slightly Exceed Forecasts in 4Q, According to iSuppli

• First Implementation of High-k Dielectric Film for NAND will Grow High-k Market

• IM Flash Technologies (Joint Venture of Micron Technology and Intel) ) Announce 4-Gbit NAND using 50-nanometer Three Metal and Triple-Poly CMOS Process

• Samsung New 40 nm NAND Process with Charge Trap Flash (CTF) using Tanos Dielectric

• Spansion Demos NROM Flash using MirrorBit Quad from Saifun IP

• STMicroelectronics Announces New 32-Mbit Flash Memory for Automotive Industry

• Mobile Phone Market Share Growth for Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony, Ericsson, LG Electronics

•  Cell Phone and MP3 Players Cause NAND to be History's Fastest-Growing IC Market

• Non-Volatile MRAM Flash from Freescale, a Motorola Spinoff

• Flash Boom Driving Fab Equipment Demand - according to Applied Material CEO

• Mobile Phone Memory Competition Between NOR and NAND Flash

• Samsung's Hybrid Flash (NAND) and Hard Disk Drive will come out in PCs in 2007

• Revenue Growth and Market Share of DRAM and FLASH Memories

• Programming Non-Volatile Flash Memory

• Cell Phones to Utilize Hard Disk Drive Technology

• NOR Flash Growth Rate and Market Share

• ISSCC News - Faster, More Reliable Multilevel Cell (MLC) Outshines Single-Bit Cell (SBC)

• ISSCC Cell Phone News- Combining DRAM and NAND Memories, Improving Programming

• Non-Volatile Flash Memory Programming Time Significantly reduced

• Flash Card Survives and Documents a Crash

• Micron CEO: Non-Volatile NAND Growth Mirrors DRAM Growth 20 Years Ago

• Hard Disk Drive vs. Flash Drive

• When Will Non-Volatile Flash Volume Exceed DRAM Volume?

• Samsung Shift Capacity from DRAM to NAND Flash

• A Flash USB Drive Plus Input/Output Devices Could be the Computer of Tomorrow

• 14 Million Flash Drives are not Enough for Steve Jobs

•  Flash Drive Speeds up Computer Turn on, Triples Battery Life, and Reduces Size

• Faster, Instant-on Flash-Based Hard Drive - Developed by Samsung

• Samsung: 'Hybrid' Hard Drives Will Ship In 2006

• Flash Memory: Today the iPod, Tomorrow the World