Semiconductor & Technology Specialist, Ingenuity

William Keating

Dr. William Keating is a highly experienced senior executive with over 25 years experience in the IT/Semiconductor Industry. The majority of Dr. Keating's career was spent at Intel Corporation where he held senior leadership positions in Europe, the US and Asia from 1992 through 2014. He served as Intel's IT Director for APAC, China & Japan from 2005 through 2014 when he was based in Hong Kong and was responsible for the IT systems (Infrastructure, Networks, Data Centres, ERP, Sales & Marketing systems, Business Intelligence etc. ) for all of Intel's offices & factories through the region. From 1998 through 2005, he was the founder & director of an internal IT Consulting Organisation (IT Flex Services), a 500-person team which remains a core part of the Intel IT Organisation to this day. Dr. Keating's first 6 years at Intel were spent in charge of the Factory Automation Systems (Robotics, Databases, Networks, Servers, Clients etc.) supporting Intel's then state-of-the-art 200mm factory network. Since leaving Intel in 2014, Dr Keating established his own Technology Research & Consulting Company (www.ingenuity.hk) where he focuses on the products, roadmaps & technologies of companies such as Intel, AMD, Samsung, Apple, Micron- as well as the key equipment suppliers to those companies e.g. ASML, AMAT, Canon, Nikon etc. Dr. Keating specializes in niche topics of high significance within the semiconductor industry. These include the future of Moore's Law and in particular the significance of Lithography in maintaining Moore's Law (EUV, SDA, NanoImprint), the role & growth of the GPU in specialised applications such as Deep Learning (Neural Networks) for Voice, Image & Pattern recognition at companies such as Facebook, Google & Baidu. He also holds regular discussions on the future of memory, in particular the rise of 3D NAND and the emergence of new memory technologies such as 3D Xpoint.

Semiconductor & Technology Specialist

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Semiconductor Collapse Is Following Predicted Course

A Bull Investment Case for TSMC (Summary Version)

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

United states Semiconductors and semiconductor equipment / Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>February 2023 effectively marked the 13th consecutive month of declining semi sales making it one of the most protracted downturns of the past two decades. </li>
<li>However, we are beginning to see green shoots of recovery from the likes of Foxconn, Asus and Nanya</li>
<li>We predict semi sales will trough in Q2 2023 and begin a gradual recovery through H2 2023</li>
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February 2023 effectively marked the 13th consecutive month of declining semi sales making it one of the most protracted downturns of the past two decades. 
However, we are beginning to see green shoots of recovery from the likes of Foxconn, Asus and Nanya
We predict semi sales will trough in Q2 2023 and begin a gradual recovery through H2 2023


Global Semiconductor Sales Fall 4% MoM, 20.7% YoY In February 2023