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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 Award

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

He was awarded an MBA from Cranfield University and has a degree in Medical Physics from the University of London.

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.