Technology >> Analyst Interviews >> June 9, 2003

Outlook For Semiconductors: Richard Gordon – Gartner Inc

RICHARD GORDON is a research Vice President in Gartner Research. He has worldwide responsibility for Gartner Dataquest's semiconductor memories research and is research area leader for semiconductor market forecasting. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Gordon was at Advanced Micro Devices, where he was a senior product engineer supporting nonvolatile memory product customers across Europe. Before this, he was a transputer device engineer at the INMOS wafer fab in South Wales, and previous work was with A.B. Electronics in the subcontract electronics assembly industry. Mr. Gordon received a Bachelor of Science (honors) degree in electronics from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and has a post-graduate diploma in marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Profile
TWST: TWST: Looking back over the last 12 to 18 months, it

certainly has not been a fun time in semiconductors. Has the

industry adjusted to this difficult environment?

Mr. Gordon: It has had