Simon Chen

Principal Analyst

Simon is a semiconductor manufacturing market research analyst with over 18 years of semiconductor experience, including 10 years of foundry experience. He covers pure-play foundry market tracker and semiconductor manufacturing market research.

Simon started as a technology development engineer at Analog Technology (later acquired by Liton-Semi) for high-voltage process. He then went to TSMC, working as a product engineer for yield enhancement on analog chips such as PMICs. Simon then worked at design service company Alchip Technologies as a product engineer for yield enhancement and subsequently moved to Maxim Integrated to work in field foundry management. Before joining Omdia, Simon worked as a project consultant with AlphaSights/VisasQ.