Technology >> Analyst Interviews >> May 11, 2000
ERIC CHEN, Senior Analyst, joined JPMorgan H&Q in 1998 and covers
emerging semiconductor technologies. His prior experience includes
Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire ('CERN') in Geneva,
Switzerland, a renowned international scientific research institute and
the birthplace of the World Wide Web, where he developed hardware and
software for data acquisition and analysis. Dr. Chen worked at Motorola
in the Advanced Product Research Development Laboratory and MOS-13
facility in Austin, Texas, and has also consulted for a Silicon Valley
venture capital firm on several technology investments. He received the
'Inventor Recognition Award' from the Semiconductor Research Corporation
in October 2000, and he holds one pending US patent covering proprietary
algorithms for advanced process control and lithography. Dr. Chen has
been an invited speaker at the American Physical Society and has
published numerous papers on semiconductor technologies including
several in Physics Review Letters, a premier scientific journal. In
1987, he represented China in the International Physics Olympiad held in
Germany and earned the Silver Medal. Dr. Chen studied at Peking
University and received his PhD from Stanford University. The number one
ranked Research Analyst by the JPMorgan H&Q global sales force, he has
initiated category-defining research on several emerging technology
industries including communications semiconductors, semiconductor
intellectual property, optical-enabling technologies, and semiconductor-
enabling technologies. Profile
shaped and reshaped the fortunes of the semiconductor equipment industry
over the past two to three years.
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