Semiconductor & Technology Specialist, Ingenuity

William Keating

Dr. William Keating is a highly experienced senior executive with over 25 years experience in the IT/Semiconductor Industry. The majority of Dr. Keating's career was spent at Intel Corporation where he held senior leadership positions in Europe, the US and Asia from 1992 through 2014. He served as Intel's IT Director for APAC, China & Japan from 2005 through 2014 when he was based in Hong Kong and was responsible for the IT systems (Infrastructure, Networks, Data Centres, ERP, Sales & Marketing systems, Business Intelligence etc. ) for all of Intel's offices & factories through the region. From 1998 through 2005, he was the founder & director of an internal IT Consulting Organisation (IT Flex Services), a 500-person team which remains a core part of the Intel IT Organisation to this day. Dr. Keating's first 6 years at Intel were spent in charge of the Factory Automation Systems (Robotics, Databases, Networks, Servers, Clients etc.) supporting Intel's then state-of-the-art 200mm factory network. Since leaving Intel in 2014, Dr Keating established his own Technology Research & Consulting Company (www.ingenuity.hk) where he focuses on the products, roadmaps & technologies of companies such as Intel, AMD, Samsung, Apple, Micron- as well as the key equipment suppliers to those companies e.g. ASML, AMAT, Canon, Nikon etc. Dr. Keating specializes in niche topics of high significance within the semiconductor industry. These include the future of Moore's Law and in particular the significance of Lithography in maintaining Moore's Law (EUV, SDA, NanoImprint), the role & growth of the GPU in specialised applications such as Deep Learning (Neural Networks) for Voice, Image & Pattern recognition at companies such as Facebook, Google & Baidu. He also holds regular discussions on the future of memory, in particular the rise of 3D NAND and the emergence of new memory technologies such as 3D Xpoint.

Semiconductor & Technology Specialist

Semiconductor WFE. Supply Constrained For Now With An Upbeat Outlook For CY 2020 Overall

Semiconductor Wafer Fab Equipment. Solid Second Quarter, Strong July, On Track For >10% YoY Growth.

Semiconductor WFE Outlook. Things Just Got Really Ugly

TSMC. Setting The Stage For Record Growth In 2020 And Beyond

ASML. Second Half Memory Recovery Is More Hope Than Expectation

TSMC Initiation - Currently a Core Holding - Inteqres Practical Views

Ingenuity

Our focus is exclusively on in-depth research & consulting in the broader semiconductor industry. We focus on the key players, namely Intel, Micron, Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, NVIDIA, AMD, TSMC & Global Foundries - as well as some of the lesser known, but nonetheless critical, companies such as ASML (for EUV), Mellanox, Cavium, Xilinx etc. We specialise in their products, roadmaps, process technologies, competitive advantages & threats etc. We also help our clients understand the implications of new and emerging technologies, e.g. 3D X-Point, 3D NAND, Carbon Nanotubes, Autonomous Driving, Graphene, Silicon Photonics, Wafer-Level Optics, Artificial Intelligence, FPGA, GPU, ASIC etc. 

Semiconductor Analysis & Research

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

Macau Semiconductors and semiconductor equipment / Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<p>On the back of robust billings in the fourth quarter, the semiconductor Wafer Fab Equipment (WFE) segment closed out 2019 on a  comparatively high note with annual billings for the North American players down 12% YoY, far less than had been originally anticipated. Now, with  <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/applied-materials-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:283:1" rel="noopener">Applied Materials</a> bringing to a close the latest reporting season earlier this week, the consensus is for strong double digit growth in 2020.  However, that growth number comes with health warning as AMAT lowers its first quarter guidance by $300 million, some 7% of revenues, as a result of the disruption to their business in China caused by the spread of the so-called Novel Coronavirus in Hubei province. </p>

On the back of robust billings in the fourth quarter, the semiconductor Wafer Fab Equipment (WFE) segment closed out 2019 on a  comparatively high note with annual billings for the North American players down 12% YoY, far less than had been originally anticipated. Now, with  Applied Materials bringing to a close the latest reporting season earlier this week, the consensus is for strong double digit growth in 2020.  However, that growth number comes with health warning as AMAT lowers its first quarter guidance by $300 million, some 7% of revenues, as a result of the disruption to their business in China caused by the spread of the so-called Novel Coronavirus in Hubei province. 

Semiconductor WFE Strong 2019 Finish And Double Digit 2020 Outlook, Albeit With A Coronavirus Caveat