G. DAN HUTCHESON
Dan is a recognized authority on the semiconductor industry, winning SEMI’s Sales and Marketing Excellence Award1 in 2012 for “empowering executives with tremendous strategic and tactical marketing value`` through his e-letter, The Chip Insider®; his book Maxims of Hi-Tech, and his many interviews of executives. He currently serves as Vice Chair of TechInsights Inc. Previously he was the CEO of VLSI Research Inc.
As some industry leaders have said, “Dan has methodically captured the essence of the industry.” Dan has a proven track record of developing economic models that accurately predict trends and is widely known for forecasting strategic infrastructure shifts based on a deep knowledge of the semiconductor industry’s history and economics. This includes his development of the first factory cost-of-ownership models, wafer size and lithography transitions, the rise of the fabless/foundry model, and the global shifts of semiconductor leadership.
Dan’s public work on the industry has often focused on challenging predictions of the demise of Moore’s Law that date back decades by demonstrating how doomsayers have been outpaced by emergent behavior through the innate ability of technologists to innovate. This has included invited articles for Scientific American, the SIA, and the Plenary at the SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference.
1Formerly SEMI’s Bob Graham Award