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OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS offers third-party independent market research and data for the semiconductor industry and investors in the semiconductor industry.

Founded by leading industry experts, Objective Analysis provides excellence in market data, reviews of technology, analysis, and custom consulting.

Through our analysts’ comprehensive industry backgrounds and deep understanding in their fields, the company provides clients with a rare level of insight and fact-based research into the “why” and “how” of the industry.

An extraordinary array of industry contacts allows Objective Analysis to find data you need to make strategic decisions and to understand your competitive environment.

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OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS is a hand-picked team of highly-seasoned semiconductor industry analysts each committed to providing clients with the most unbiased evaluation possible of industry status, events, and outlook for the future. With the help of the Objective Analysis team technology firms can more finely tune their goals to assure business success.

We pride ourselves in being first seers: industry observers who pick up on important trends before they fully materialize, helping clients take the lead in important emerging markets.

Our analysts, each with an average of over 25 years of industry experience, give our clients the unvarnished truth, painting scenarios of likely outcomes, suggesting strategies with unparalleled clarity based on their in-depth understanding of the issues, competitive landscape, and prime motivators of market success or failure.

Blogs
Objective Analysis is proud to announce three new blogs:

  • Jim Handy's Chip Talk at Forbes - Covering the semiconductor business from an investor's perspective
  • The Memory Guy: A blog about all things memory - technology, business, and other news
  • The SSD Guy: Covering SSDs from all angles - Applications, Products, Technologies, etc.
Have a look, and let us know what you think by commenting on a post you happen to like!

Events
Objective Analysis team members will be participating in the following events.  Contact us to arrange a meeting.



Jim Handy will be presenting at the Storage Visions Conference in Las Vegas January 8 & 9.  Contact Jim to arrange a meeting.


Jim Handy and Tom Starnes will attend the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas January 10-13.  Contact Jim or Tom to arrange a meeting.


Webinars
Jim Handy and Tom Coughlin describe the different forms of paired storage (Flash or SSD paired with HDDs) at the SNIA webcast: "Why HDD and Flash Belong Together"

Jim Handy and Tom Coughlin explain SSD testing and show different results at the SNIA webcast: "SSD Performance Testing - Some Real Results"

Jim Handy presents today's and tomorrow's leading memory types for Micron-Numonyx at EE Times.  Click HERE.

Jim Handy's July 2009 SNIA webcast: Why & How SSDs are Economical.  Click HERE.

White Papers (Free)
  • NoC Interconnect Improves SoC Economics.  Click HERE.
  • NVELO's Dataplex, NAND Cache is Back! Click HERE.
  • Phase-Change Memory Becomes a Reality.  Click HERE.
  • Two May be Better Than One: Why Hard Disk Drives and Flash Belong Together (with SNIA).  Click HERE.
  • Choosing the Right Solid State Storage Device: A Case Study of the SNIA SSSI Performance Test Specification.  Click HERE.
  • Flash and HDD: Symbiosis or Survival of the Fittest? Click HERE.
  • NAND Flash Storage for the Enterprise - an In-Depth Look at Reliability (with SNIA). Click HERE.
  • Solid State Storage 101 (with SNIA). Click HERE.
Fun
In the 1980s Humphrey Products published "How To Make an Integrated Circuit."  It's still funny!  Click the mouse picture to see the brochure.  Offered with the permission of Humphrey Products.


We have found a clean scan of the Signetics "Write-Only Memory" datasheet from 1972 on Bob Pease's pages of the National Semiconductor website.  Click the Signetics logo to see it.

EDN's Paul Rako posted a great compilation of April Fools' pranks (and others) pulled by various engineers in the semiconductor industry.  Click the EDN logo to be taken to this wonderfully funny article and waste a half hour of your time.


Affiliations
Objective Anaysis is proud to be a Gerson Lehrman Group Council Partner.
 


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