Highlights

This month we had the privilege of sitting down with Barry Paterson, CEO at Agile Analog, the customizable analog IP company. Throughout his career, he has held senior leadership, engineering and product management roles at Wolfson Microelectronics and Dialog Semiconductor. Barry has been involved in the development of custom mixed-signal silicon solutions for many of the leading mobile and consumer electronics companies across the world. With a technical background in Ethernet, Audio, Haptics and Power Management, he is passionate about working with customers to deliver high quality products. Read more below for his full interview: Q: What advice would you Read More

We are excited to share May's feature for GSA's Get to Know the CEO. This month we sat down with Graham Curren, Founder and CEO, Sondrel.   Graham founded Sondrel in 2002 after identifying a gap in the market for an international company specializing in complex digital IC design.  Prior to establishing Sondrel, Graham graduated in Electronic Engineering from Leeds University and worked in both ASIC design and manufacturing before joining electronic design automation (“EDA”) company, Avant! Corporation. There, he managed the technical and marketing teams across EMEA, supporting products across the whole range of IC design.  In 2010, Graham Read More

We are proud to introduce this month's Get to Know the CEO feature: Albert Liu, Founding Chairman & CEO, Kneron.     Albert Liu is the founder and CEO of Kneron, a full-stack edge AI company. Prior to establishing Kneron in 2015, He has held both R&D and management positions at Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics R&D centre. Albert owns 30+ international patents in the areas of artificial intelligence, computer vision and image processing and has published 70+ papers in major international journals. As of 2022, he received the IEEE Darlington Award for seminal work on a reconfigurable architecture for CNN Read More

  Check out the latest Dan Niles Economic Review for Q1 of 2023. GSA members will hear from Dan Niles himself discussing how China’s reopening will impact the current industry cycle as consumer spending shifts. Compounded by high inflation and dwindling consumer savings, Dan anticipates a difficult second half of the year and shares his expert advice with us in, A Tale of Two Halves: China Re-Opening But Keeps Inflation High. Please click here to view the recording and/or download the full presentation.                

GSA's next Interest Group Automotive Workshop in collaboration with McKinsey & Company will be in-person March 1st, 2023! The theme: Next Generation Automotive E/E Architecture: Zonal Computing. In previous GSA-McKinsey collaboration projects, we investigated how domain controllers constitute the first path towards an increasing centralization of the compute resources. In this current project and the coming-up workshop, we will analyze how the next step in this centralization will pan out in more detail: how exactly the industry will move to a zonal architecture with a physical and cross-domain grouping of functionality, which will also supports a further integration of previously separated Read More

Dalia Vernikovsky is a highly accomplished senior executive with more than 30 years of success within semiconductor manufacturing prowess (and related industries), problem-solving and strategic thinking. Currently, Dalia serves as Chief Executive Officer with Applied Seals N.A. Inc. in Fremont, CA, a role that brings to light her ability to develop the strategies required to develop a start-up with a strong sense of responsibility to her stakeholders as well as risk-mitigation yet drive towards the vision she created. Her skills create strong blueprints for sales and marketing, networking, and customer acquisition. In addition to her executive career, Dalia serves as Read More

The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) Board of Directors welcomes Jinman Han from Samsung Electronics and Device Solutions Americas. The GSA Board represents some of the most influential companies in the industry that are responsible for assisting the organization and steering its vision of providing a comprehensive global perspective and commitment to foster collaboration, innovation, and integration for the industry and across the value chain. "It's a tremendous honor to welcome Jinman as Samsung’s representative to the GSA Board of Directors," said Jodi Shelton. Samsung is an incredibly important semiconductor company and partner for the global semiconductor industry and the GSA Read More

Check out the latest Dan Niles Economic Review for Q4 of 2022 which reviews the geopolitical factors that impacted the economic landscape this last year. Start the new year with an up-to-date market outlook and hear expert predictions in preparation for the prospective recession with Dan’s presentation, Into the Fire: Don’t Fight the Fed & Don’t Fight the Fundamentals. See the full presentation below.   https://www.gsaglobal.org/dan-niles-economic-review-2022-q4/

President Lin co-founded Andes Technology Corporation (Andes) in 2005 and in 2006 he formally took the position as Andes' President. President Lin received a BSEE degree of electrophysics from the National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, and an MSEE degree of electrical and computer engineering from Portland State University, Oregon, USA. Under his management, Andes has been recognized as one of leading suppliers of embedded CPU IP in the semiconductor industry. Andes also gained the reputation of a leading technology company with awards including the “2012 EE Times Worldwide Silicon 60 Hot Startups to Watch” and the “2015 the Deloitte Technology Fast Read More