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About VLSIresearch

VLSIresearch is an award-winning provider of market research and economic analysis on the technical, business, and economic aspects of the semiconductor supply chain. Providing intelligence for faster and better decision making, seasoned executives in high technology, government, and finance rely on VLSIresearch’s insights to guide them to the right decisions. The formula is simple: Better intelligence leads to better decisions which deliver better results. Founded in 1976, VLSIresearch is the leading technology research and advisory company focused on semiconductor related manufacturing.

RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Semiconductor Analytics

Critical Subsystems

The Chip Insider®

Photovoltaics

The ForecastPro

Test Consumable Markets

Equipment Databases

Consulting

Customer Satisfaction Survey

LEADERSHIP

VLSIresearch is a privately owned company and is not related to any other company or product with the name ‘VLSI’. Its owners participate in the day-to-day operations of the company. The executive members at VLSIresearch consist of a thoroughly qualified and well-seasoned team. Collectively, they bring more than 100 years of direct industry experience to bear upon industry issues.

G. Dan Hutcheson, CEO and Chairman of the Board

Risto Puhakka, President

Lisa M. Steele, Vice President

Manjesh Singh, CTO

John West, Managing Director, VLSIresearch Europe

Kaz Hayashi, Managing Director, Japan Affiliate Office

Philip Wang, Managing Director, Taiwain Affiliate Office

Young Soo (YS) Im, Managing Director, Korea Affiliate Office

AWARDS

2002

VLSIresearch’s founder, Jerry Hutcheson, received SEMI’s coveted Bob Graham Award for pioneering and developing the semiconductor equipment industry’s first databases. These became a critical mainstay of decision making for industry leaders.

2012

G. Dan Hutcheson received SEMI’s coveted Bob Graham Award for outstanding contributions in marketing. His email newsletter, The Chip Insider®, contains a mix of industry insider facts, forecasts, market opportunities and threats, as well as industry debates among recipients. His book, Maxims of Tech, chronicles how our Industry’s leaders have innovated — providing key business lessons. Together, his activities empower executives with strategic and tactical marketing value.

HIGHLIGHTS

Since the early eighties VLSIresearch has been the only market research firm to consistently gauge the direction of growth. The company has always driven to deliver data and services with the most advanced methods, such as the internet and dynamic databases. Its innovations include being the first to use demand-based forecasting; the first to model semiconductor inventories in forecasts; the first to use cost-of-ownership models for evaluating equipment; the first to perform customer satisfaction surveys; the first semiconductor industry research firm to apply capacity and inventory models in forecasting; the first to use pricing data to capture supply demand imbalances.

VLSIresearch's significant market research results, innovations and early predictions include the following highlights:

1979	Demand-based forecasting with a fully tiered model of the economy, electronics, semiconductors, and equipment First subscription service on Semiconductor Manufacturing
1980	The first Cost-of-Ownership models for evaluating equipment - Used to predict Stepper’s defeat of Projection and e-Beam lithography The first subscription full service market-research on semiconductor equipment
1981	The first to forecast the semiconductor industry downturn First quarterly forecasts of the semiconductor supply chain Proves affordability of rapidly increasing wafer fab costs Private Customer Satisfaction Surveys
1983	The application of desktop publishing Systematically updated demand driving forces, such as data on silicon wafers by device type, line width and devices by package type
1984	Relational databases on the chip making industry The first to model inventory and capacity effects in forecasts
1987	Portable research
1988	Introduced 10 BEST Customer Satisfaction Surveys on Chip Making Industry Cell-based market segmentation to track Emerging ICs Predicted peak of Japan’s rise to dominance before the end of the decade
1990	System-value modeling to establish Emerging IC market potential Predicted Mobility as the next wave of electronics after personal computing
1991	First Cost of Ownership model for phase-shift lithography
1992	The first to use neural networks for forecasting
1993	Customers rate VLSIresearch the Top Market Research Company in Electronic Business’ Report Card on Market Researchers The first to use chaos theory in business modeling Predicts rapid emergence of CMP
1994	Predicted 10 year gestation for 300mm
1995	Defined standard terminology for cleaving BEOL and FEOL process flows
1996	Demonstrated that the number of competitors in a market is a function of R&D
1998	Monthly industry forecasts The Weather Report for weekly regional order activity tracking Predicted maskless lithography would not be a viable NGL and that Optical Exposure would be extended at least another 10 years
1999	Use of weekly chip pricing as a driver for semiconductor demand forecast Chip Price Performance Index Predicted Dotcom crash
2000	The offering of all of its services on the internet First quarterly market share tracking of the semiconductor equipment industry February prediction of 2001 crash, quarters ahead of anyone else
2001	Critical Subsystems market research service First work on 450mm wafers Predicted EUV to win out over 4 alternative technologies
2002	Weekly Graphics File covering all critical activities affecting semiconductor and equipment markets Predicts 193nm immersion will rise to postpone EUV emergence
2003	Dynamic databases on the internet The Chip Insider^® videos of key executives
2004	Worldwide electronic sales on a monthly basis Launch of The Chip History Center
2005	Predicts 15-20 year gestation for 450mm, rumors of CMOS’s death overstated and Hi-k to be the next big material innovation
2006	‘Maxims -- The extreme sport of high technology business’ published
2007	Introduced weSRCH.com networking site for technologists - Sessions in Hi-Tech, Med-Tech, and Green Tech Silicon demand by device type and line width
2008	Nano Manufacturing equipment forecast that covered IC, FPD, PV Cell, HDD, MEMs and Optical Disc Manufacturing markets
2009	Weekly IC sales tracking Weekly Electronics Sales Activity Index
2010	Weekly pricing data on key electronics devices
2011	Launch of Semiconductor Analytics with a weekly tracking of industry’s key performance indicators
2012	Semiconductor Week introduced to provide the industry a snapshot of VLSresearch’s weekly research activities
2013	Demonstrated end-market value of metrology First to identify mobile device price deterioration Showed why process complexity and yield would slow introduction of 3D NAND flash Demonstrated that Moore’s Law and semiconductor innovation was emergent vNAND impact on lithography demand assessed
2014	Market Scenarios for Slowing Moore’s Law How Japan’s Best Companies Prevailed over the Lost Decades TSMC’s wafer cost analysis
2015	On-Demand Response Tracking of Customer Satisfaction surveys Failure Analysis Equipment Market Analysis Advanced Packaging Demand The Market Value Created by Moore’s Law