Pure Play Foundry Market Tracker – 1Q23 Database

Simon Chen

Principal Analyst

Simon is a semiconductor manufacturing market research analyst with over 18 years of semiconductor experience, including 10 years of foundry experience. He covers pure-play foundry market tracker and semiconductor manufacturing market research.

Simon started as a technology development engineer at Analog Technology (later acquired by Liton-Semi) for high-voltage process. He then went to TSMC, working as a product engineer for yield enhancement on analog chips such as PMICs. Simon then worked at design service company Alchip Technologies as a product engineer for yield enhancement and subsequently moved to Maxim Integrated to work in field foundry management. Before joining Omdia, Simon worked as a project consultant with AlphaSights/VisasQ.

Craig Stice

Chief Analyst, Omdia Semiconductor Research

As part of Omdia’s semiconductor practice, Craig focuses on semiconductor manufacturing worldwide. Craig’s team provides detailed research on the semiconductor industry, whether at the IDM, fabless, or foundry markets. Additionally, his team provides a quarterly semiconductor revenue forecast by component type which currently goes up to 2027.

Previously, Craig worked with the memory team at Omdia, focusing specifically on the NAND industry. Craig provided detailed analysis of NAND manufacturing, technology trends, as well as application demand drivers to create an overall view of the current NAND supply/demand environment and the outlook.

Craig began his career as an analyst with IHS Markit (now Omdia) in 2012. Prior to that, Craig spent 16 years at Micron Technology working in product marketing and business development. Craig holds a Bachelor of Arts from Boise State University, Idaho.