SEMICON West 2016

Christian G. Dieseldorff
Senior Analyst, Director of Market Research
SEMI


Chris has 30 years of industry experience. He earned an engineering degree in chemistry at the University of Applied Science in the German Alps. In 1986, he began as process and development engineer for 1Mb DRAM on 4- and 5-inch wafers at the new pilot line at the Siemens R&D center in Munich, Germany. In 1990 Chris moved to the US as one of the first members of the “Development Alliance Team” at IBM in East Fishkill, New York, at the world’s first 200mm facility. From 1996 to 1999 he held the positions of engineering manager and director of the world’s first 300mm beta line at International Sematech in Austin, Texas. In 1999, he became the quality assurance manager for Memory and Graphics chips for North America at Infineon in San Jose, California. Chris joined Strategic Marketing Associates in California as senior analyst and director of market research in 2001. Since 2007, he conducts worldwide fab database research and forecasts in the Industry Research and Statistics group at SEMI headquarters in San Jose, California.

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