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Steve Szirom is a semiconductor industry analyst and management consultant with over 35+ years of international and business experience in the semiconductor industry. His consulting specialties in microelectronics are tracking and analyzing startups, market and strategic business planning, investment analysis, organizational development, integrated marcom strategies, international issues and business development. He is a founding member of the Bellingham Angel Group located in the Pacific Northwest. He assists startup management in positioning their emerging ventures on a faster growth track and avoiding pitfalls.

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In 1969, Szirom started his career with Motorola Semiconductor (Freescale Semiconductor) in international marketing (Asia and Europe) with responsibility for analog ICs (consumer and professional) and later in strategic marketing for power devices. While at Motorola, he was analog IC marketing manager for Europe based in Toulouse, France. Following his career at Motorola, Szirom joined Signetics/Philips Semiconductor as international memory marketing manager working closely with the European semiconductor unit of Philips.

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Szirom incorporated HTE Research, Inc. ( www.hteresearch.com) in 1984 as a technology market research and management consulting firm. He founded InsideChips ( www.insidechips.com) in 2000 as a division of HTE Research to track and analyse emerging semiconductor ventures and techologies for executives in the financial and electronics communities.

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He received his BSEE degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Attended the MBA program at Arizona State University. He holds an active Coast Guard Master's License and is an avid sailor.

Steve Szirom's Company

InsideChips InsideChips is a web-based service tracking and analyzing emerging semiconductor ventures and technologies. Startups covered include fabless ventures, IP firms, independent design houses, EDA, and embedded electronics firms. The timeline tracks the new ventures from the "kitchen table" stage through IPO. The service includes web access to proprietary content on semiconductor firms, email reports, financial information, database information, and other online content. The service is oriented to executives in the electronics industry, venture capital and financial community who deal with semiconductor startups for revenue, investment, partnering, or sourcing. The analysis is written by a 35-year industry insider, Steve Szirom, who covers the industry having broad international, product and company experience.
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Steve Szirom's Blog

Chip Hatchery The Chip Hatchery(TM) blog covers trends and musings about semiconductor marketing, business issues, startups and investing. The expert contributors to this blog will come from the ranks of senior semiconductor industry thought leaders with deep experience (at least 20+ years in the chip industry). One thing is certain in the chip industry: executives often have to make decisions quickly without having all the information available. One's batting average improves with industry experience, i.e., the ability to make sound judgment decisions. Call it informed intuition -- in the chip industry, experience counts heavily as a determinant for success

Since InsideChips is based in the Pacific Northwest, Chip Hatchery is a a take-off on 'fish hatchery.' Both commercial fishing and starting chip companies demand deep experience to avoid "sinking the ship," dealing with risks and uncertainties, flexibility to change plans at the last minute, courage and daring, being able to forecast periods of "bad weather," having a passionate zeal to succeed, hard work with long hours, and some luck.
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