Jan 15, 2021 | Market trend Dear Members, You might think Smartphones will replace PCs soon. However, in the year 2020, there was a record of 300 Million Personal Computers sold worldwide since 2014. It is proven that the PC is still the primary productivity tool favored among us. Last month, I assembled a PC for both AI training and gaming. However, the key components, such as Nvidia’s GTX3090 cards and AMD’s RYZEN 9 CPUs were tough to find. I had to use in-stock finders such as zooLert.com and…
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Dec 31, 2020 | Market Update Dear Members, As the time marches toward the end of 2020, much good news such as promising COVID-19 vaccines brought us a positive recovery outlook in 2021. According to SIA/WSTS, semiconductor sales increased 12% in September to mark a second consecutive month of double-digit development. Year-to-date semiconductor receipts as of September jumped 5.5%, approximated to the same period in 2019. The total semiconductor equipment market in 2020 is on track to beat the previous high…
Dec 15, 2020 | Market Update Dear Members, As the time marches toward the end of 2020, much good news such as promising COVID-19 vaccines brought us a positive recovery outlook in 2021. According to SIA/WSTS, semiconductor sales increased 12% in September to mark a second consecutive month of double-digit development. Year-to-date semiconductor receipts as of September jumped 5.5%, approximated to the same period in 2019. The total semiconductor equipment market in 2020 is on track to beat the previous high…
Nov 30, 2020 | President’s Words Dear CASPA’s Sponsors, members and friends: It’s my greatest honor and privilege to take on this historic duty to continue CASPA’s missions like all my respectable predecessors and to lead this most influential non-profitable semiconductor professional association, to embrace the disruptive innovations happened at Silicon Valley. Since early 2020, COVID-19 has been turned into a global crisis. It is the biggest challenge of our life time. No industry is immune to the impact of…
Nov 15, 2020 | President’s Words Dear CASPA’s Sponsors, members and friends: It’s my greatest honor and privilege to take on this historic duty to continue CASPA’s missions like all my respectable predecessors and to lead this most influential non-profitable semiconductor professional association, to embrace the disruptive innovations happened at Silicon Valley. Since early 2020, COVID-19 has been turned into a global crisis. It is the biggest challenge of our life time. No industry is immune to the impact of…
Oct 31, 2020 | President’s Words Dear CASPA’s Sponsors, members and friends: It’s my greatest honor and privilege to take on this historic duty to continue CASPA’s missions like all my respectable predecessors and to lead this most influential non-profitable semiconductor professional association, to embrace the disruptive innovations happened at Silicon Valley. Since early 2020, COVID-19 has been turned into a global crisis. It is the biggest challenge of our life time. No industry is immune to the impact of…
Oct 15, 2020 | CASPA 2020 Annual Conference: Next Wave of Semiconductor Innovation When: Oct 17, 2020 01:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Topic: CASPA 2020 Annual Conference: Next Wave of Semiconductor Innovation CASPA website: Link Registration Link: Click here * If you are a CASPA lifetime member, you are encouraged to vote for the board of directors of CASPA, please for the morning session. You will be admitted to the Zoom session. For regular audiences to wish to watch the morning session, please also ,…
OCT 17, 2020 | Watch the election LIVE: https://youtu.be/a0XaiO5EL1g Dear CASPA Lifetime or Live yearly members, Due to the shelter-in-place order for the COVID19 pandemic, our CASPA 2020 Annual Conference will do an online Zoom conference instead. Since we cannot meet you in person and handover the ballot to you physically, we will do online voting. The voting will take place at 10:00 am on 10/17/2020. You will need to attend the Zoom meeting, listen to candidates’ introduction, and cast your vote by…
Sep 27, 2020 | Watch the election LIVE: https://youtu.be/a0XaiO5EL1g Dear CASPA members, Each year, CASPA will elect part of its Board of Directors (BOD) at the annual meeting, according to its By-law. There will be about 10 seats of Directors open to be elected in the upcoming annual conference to be held on Oct. 17, 2020. All eligible candidates are encouraged to apply for these 10 BOD seats, and run for BOD election during the annual meeting. The candidates with the top 10 number of votes will get the…