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.
Dan is CEO and Chairman of VLSIresearch inc. He is a recognized authority on the semiconductor industry, winning SEMI's Sales and Marketing Excellence Award1 in 2012 for “empowering executives with tremendous strategic and tactical marketing value" through his e-letter, The Chip Insider® his book Maxims of Hi-Tech, and his many interviews of executives.
He is thought of as “the marketing voice and expert for the industry.” “Dan has methodically captured the essence of the industry and produced it in such a way for all to benefit ... He has been such an integral part of the industry for so long, it is difficult imagine the industry without his contributions.”
His consulting work has included hundreds of successful programs involving product development, launch, and positioning. Dan has a proven track record of developing economic models that accurately predict trends. He is widely known for the forecasting of strategic infrastructure shifts. This includes his early-eighties development of the first factory cost-of-ownership models, multiple wafer size and lithography transitions, the rise of the fabless/foundry model to counter escalating fab costs, the shift of the DRAM memory market from the United States to Japan in the 1980s, then its shifting again to Korea in 1990s, as well as the driving forces behind the rise of Flash Memory.
Dan’s public work on the industry includes two articles for Scientific American challenging predictions of the demise of Moore’s Law by demonstrating how the innate abilities of scientists to innovate have outpaced the doomsayers, and an invited article on the history and economics of Moore’s Law for the SIA. He has also been the keynote or invited speaker at dozens of conferences. His pro bono work has included serving as an advisor on innovation to the White House Council of Economic Advisors, teaching invited courses at Stanford University, and serving on the Board of Advisors to the Extension School at UC Berkeley. Dan holds two patents and a Master’s degree in Economics from San Jose State University. He is a senior member of the IEEE.
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1 Formerly SEMI's Bob Graham AwardAs Vice President of Administration, Lisa Steele is responsible for client services, finance, human resources, and administrative services. Previous to her current role at VLSI Research, Ms. Steele was responsible for directing the research and marketing communications effort surrounding the VLSI Research Customer Satisfaction Report on Chip Making Equipment.
Ms. Steele's career experience spans more than twenty years. During her career she has managed capital equipment committees for the medical services industry, establishing acquisition priorities using weighted analytical methods. In addition, she has forecasted new business ventures; analyzed the impact of pricing strategies on profitability; performed competitive analyses; and has led a financial software conversion team. Ms. Steele earned a Master of Business Administration from the College of Notre Dame. She received an undergraduate degree in Managerial Economics from the University of California, Davis.
Andrea Lati is the Director of Market Research at VLSI Research Inc. Since joining VLSI Research in 2001, Andrea has been focusing on managing and developing forecasting models as well as performing market analysis and research on electronics, semiconductor, and equipment markets. In addition, Andrea has performed many custom studies for various clients and ...
is a co-author of The Chip Insider® He earned his bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Economics from the University of California Santa Barbara.
Kazunori (Kaz) Hayashi is founder, president, and principal analyst of Technology Partners Inc (TPI). TPI represents VLSI Research Inc in Japan. Mr. Hayashi has over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, specializing in ...
the semiconductor equipment market.Prior to founding TPI, he spent ten years at Gartner/Dataquest Japan’s Marketing and Consulting Division as Director of the Semiconductor Group. Before that, he co-founded and directed the Semiconductor Analysis Service at Techno System Research. Mr. Hayashi holds a Bachelor degree from Meiji University in Japan.
Mr. Im is the CEO of IH Corporation Inc. IH Corporation represents VLSI Research Inc in Korea. Mr. Im has over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, specializing in the semiconductor equipment market.Prior to founding IH Corporation, held executive positions at 3 Trust Korea Co., ...
Ltd., KLA-Tencor Korea, Applied Materials Korea, and Philips Signetics Korea. Mr. Im holds a Bachelor of Electronics degree from Seoul National University of Technical and a Master’s in Management Information Systems from the Chung Buk National University.
Risto Puhakka is President of VLSIresearch, leading the company’s commercial operations and market research activities. He is an expert in Semiconductor Capital Equipment markets as well as Semiconductor Manufacturing. Risto has advised companies, investors, and agencies in the United States, Europe, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.
As an experienced market researcher and analyst, his work draws from VLSI’s global network to provide market intelligence for companies engaged in the semiconductor manufacturing supply chain.
Risto advises managers, boards, and investors about semiconductor market trends and strategic industry statistics. He is a regularly invited speaker at conferences about various topics in semiconductor manufacturing and equipment markets. At VLSIresearch, Risto works on numerous client projects in a variety of semiconductor manufacturing segments. Projects include:
Advanced Packaging markets and demand
TSMC wafer cost
Failure Analysis Equipment Market analysis
Silicon Demand Outlook
Analog, MEMS, Power Transistor IC manufacturing equipment market
Mask supply analysis and mask manufacturing equipment markets; Global view of the mask supply and demand
IC manufacturing related customer satisfaction survey programs
Due diligence advisories to strategic or private equity investors
Numerous individual equipment market assessments and customer analyses
Financial performance benchmarking for equipment and semiconductor suppliers
Risto is a graduate of Helsinki University of Technology (MSc) and UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business (MBA).When Risto is not working he cherishes time with his family, runs very long distances, and is occasionally spotted flying model airplanes.
Dr. Singh has spent the past 20 years in Information Technology (IT) focused on advanced Internet technology development. He currently serves as Chief Technology Officer for VLSIresearch and is responsible for leading the company’s technology development pipelines, driving company engineering initiatives and collaboration, and overseeing VLSIresearch’s IT organization.
This includes directing all code development and SEO for multiple web sites. Manjesh is a visionary and goal-oriented IT Senior Executive with a proven track record of doing more with less. This is evidenced by his taking VLSIresearch’s core Internet technology through multiple generations; being an early adopter of open source, to replace VLSIresearch’s expensive proprietary systems; and setting up VLSIresearch’s offshore development center in India. His passionate focus on executing technology innovation has kept VLSIresearch on the cutting edge, well ahead of organizations with far larger resources.
Under Manjesh’s leadership, VLSIresearch has expanded from the early infancy of the Internet through web 2.0, while developing multiple websites. It also developed a complete client service portal using open source code. Manjesh was also critically responsible for taking VLSIresearch’s internationally known Customer Satisfaction Survey from paper to a multi-language internet version with a complete analytical backend for automated data collection, analysis, and publication.
Prior to joining VLSIresearch Manjesh was Senior Director of Operations at New Moon where he Managed IT, Client Services, Technical Support, Pre-Sales, Professional Services, and QA Groups. The technology his team developed there was sold to Tarantella, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems and eventually sold to Google in 2005. Manjesh holds PhD and Master’s degrees in Physics from Bhopal University, India.
John joined VLSI in 2000 and is responsible for supporting all of VLSI Research’s European activities. In addition, he developed the Critical Subsystems Market service in 2001 and the PV Equipment Market service in 2005. He is the author of numerous proprietary market research reports.
He was awarded an MBA from Cranfield University and has a degree in Medical Physics from the University of London.
Mr. Huang is President of Shanghai ICsight Business Consulting Co., Ltd. ICsight Consulting represents VLSIresearch in China Mainland. Mr. Huang is also the Secretary-General of China Electronic Production Industry Association (CEPEA); executive editor of the magazine “Equipment for Electronic Products...
Manufacturing”;and marketing director of the China Semiconductor Packaging Test & Marketing Annual Conference (CSPT) and the China IC Manufacturing Annual Conference (ICMC). Mr. Huang has over 13 years of experience in the China Semiconductor Industry Association (CSIA), specializing in the semiconductor equipment & manufacturing market.
W. Philip Wang supports the Taiwanese industry as Managing Director of VLSI Research’s Taiwan Affiliate Office, located in Taipei, Taiwan. He has more than twenty years experience within the semiconductor industry, ranging from engineering to technical marketing.Much of this was gained at Western Digital’s...
Imaging Group. Since 2001 Mr. Wang has been Managing Director of Tide Win Technology. Mr. Wang gained his BSEE from the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, and his MSEE from Arizona State University.
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.
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.
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.