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

Worldwide Semiconductor Sales To Grow 9.5% In 2018

Semiconductor Sales & Wafer Shipments Review Q2 2018

Silicon Wafers- The Golden Goose That Keeps on Giving

Silicon Wafers for Semiconductors - Ugly Duckling Turns Golden Goose

2017 Global Semiconductor Sales Reach A Record $412.2 Billion.

Tech Wreck Rout Coincides With Record Semiconductor Sales Creating The Perfect Storm

Learnings From The History of Memory Part 4- The Insatiable Demand For NAND Flash

Ingenuity

Our focus is exclusively on in-depth research & consulting in the broader semiconductor industry. We focus on the key players, namely Intel, Micron, Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, NVIDIA, AMD, TSMC & Global Foundries - as well as some of the lesser known, but nonetheless critical, companies such as ASML (for EUV), Mellanox, Cavium, Xilinx etc. We specialise in their products, roadmaps, process technologies, competitive advantages & threats etc. We also help our clients understand the implications of new and emerging technologies, e.g. 3D X-Point, 3D NAND, Carbon Nanotubes, Autonomous Driving, Graphene, Silicon Photonics, Wafer-Level Optics, Artificial Intelligence, FPGA, GPU, ASIC etc. 

Semiconductor Analysis & Research

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

Colombia Semiconductors and semiconductor equipment / Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<p>Silicon wafer shipment numbers racked up a fourth consecutive year of record highs in 2017, increasing by 10% to 11,810 million square inches (MSI). Revenues also increased, by 21% to $8.71 billion. Those numbers reflect the widely reported silicon wafer shortages and associated prices hikes which characterized the market last year. According to the latest earnings reports and press releases from the key silicon wafer manufacturers, little will change in 2018. In this Insight, we review the latest wafer shipment data and demonstrate that despite last year's price increases, the silicon wafer industry remains far behind the levels of profitability they enjoyed at their peak one decade ago. </p>

Silicon wafer shipment numbers racked up a fourth consecutive year of record highs in 2017, increasing by 10% to 11,810 million square inches (MSI). Revenues also increased, by 21% to $8.71 billion. Those numbers reflect the widely reported silicon wafer shortages and associated prices hikes which characterized the market last year. According to the latest earnings reports and press releases from the key silicon wafer manufacturers, little will change in 2018. In this Insight, we review the latest wafer shipment data and demonstrate that despite last year's price increases, the silicon wafer industry remains far behind the levels of profitability they enjoyed at their peak one decade ago. 

Silicon Wafers-The Golden Goose With More To Give

Semiconductors and Semiconductor Equipment

Silicon Wafers-The Golden Goose With More To Give