CMP Media's 'EE Times' Launches New Silicon Engineering Print and Online CoveragePRNewswire "EE Times," the electronics industry news source for engineers and technical managers, announces a new weekly editorial section focused on the rapidly emerging semiconductor design and manufacturing market, called Silicon Engineering, scheduled to launch July 1, 2002. "As design and manufacturing are being de-coupled, the information needs of chip designers and chip builders only increases. As always, 'EE Times' takes a pro-active leadership position at the forefront of this industry change," says Richard Wallace, EE Times VP/Editorial Director. "'EE Times' new Silicon Engineering section identifies and tracks the strategic businesses, product lines, chip designs and techno/business trends that are shaping and remaking the semiconductor manufacturing landscape," states Wallace. Today, foundries embody a new manufacturing paradigm sweeping the semiconductor industry. As more chip design firms have decided that their core competency is design and branding, and not manufacturing, foundries have experienced phenomenal growth over the past few years. Gartner Dataquest forecasts: "Foundry revenue to grow at a CAGR of 21.4% from 2001 through 2006, reaching $22.7 billion. This rate of growth is outpacing the growth of the overall semiconductor industry through the same period, at 12.6%. Foundries manufacture more than 16% of the world's semiconductor products on a revenue basis, and this share is forecast to reach 25% by 2006." [Gartner Dataquest "YE01 Forecast: Semiconductor Foundry Services (Executive Summary)", J. Hines, March 2002.] In the future, silicon foundries and fabless design shops will become the preferred semiconductor source for many of the wireless communications, networking, system-on-chip and consumer electronics companies. Since semiconductor design and manufacturing has become a global business, "EE Times" will leverage all of its editorial resources in the US, Japan, Europe and Asia-Pacific to report these stories to our readers. CMP online properties, EEdesign.com and SiliconStrategies.com, communities for design engineers technical managers and semiconductor professionals, will also benefit from the enhanced editorial coverage. "EE Times" increased coverage in the semiconductor design and manufacturing market marks the end of "Integrated System Design," a monthly CMP publication. "Essentially, we've increased the frequency of our coverage in this exciting industry, and refocused our editorial resources to cover it," says Paul Miler, EE Times publisher and CMP Electronics Group VP/managing director. "As these trends become more mainstream and affect more aspects of the product development process, more engineers and technical managers will need this information to make decisions." "EE Times" is a technology and business newsweekly serving the information needs of more than 160,000 engineers and technical managers. EE Times.com and its specialized online communities, such as CommsDesign.com, EEdesign.com, Planet Analog and The Work Circuit, average more than 700,000 unique visitors and 2.3 million page views each month. The "EE Times" Network is published by CMP Media LLC, headquartered based in Manhasset, NY. CMP Media LLC (http://www.cmp.com/) is a leading high-tech media company providing essential information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrum-the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide. Capitalizing on its editorial strength, CMP is uniquely positioned to offer marketers comprehensive, integrated media solutions tailored to meet their individual needs. Its diverse products and services include newspapers, magazines, Internet products, research, direct marketing services, education and training, trade shows and conferences, custom publishing, testing and consulting. For more information: Steve Paul EE Times Director of Marketing (781) 839-1326 spaul@cmp.com SOURCE: CMP Media LLC Contact: Steve Paul, EE Times Director of Marketing, +1-781-839-1326, Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/181993.html |