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Lammers lands on his feet...again |
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Jun 29, 2007 at 04:35 PM |
My comrade-in-words Dave Lammers has landed on his professional feet...again.
As some Chips Shots' reader may know, Dave covered the silicon development and manufacturing technology beat at EE Times for many years until he was unceremoniously dumped last fall. He was quickly scooped up by Dan Hutcheson and Co. at VLSI Research, to help run their fledgling WeSRCH Web 2.0/social community project. Dave's bloggish columns were one of the highlights of VLSI's venture during the first part of this year, but they suddenly came to an end in May, when he was let go by Hutcheson because of the proverbial "budget squeeze."
But Dave's a survivor and has a knack for timing of late. When I got him on the phone earlier today, Dave told me that soon after his departure from WeSRCH, he was contacted by Pete Singer, editor in chief of Semiconductor International. Pete offered him the newly created position of news editor, and Dave accepted. He will be focusing his news-gathering and writing skills on the mag's soon-to-launch www.semiconductor.net redesign. "It worked out great for me," Dave said in his laconic fashion.
Given the recent defenestration of more editorial talent at EE Times (goodbye to quality scribes, Richard Goering and Mike Clendenin, among others), Dave's new gig came just in the nick of time before the already overpopulated ranks of laid-off tech (and other) journalists became even more bloated.
Dave starts up with SI this Monday, July 2, with duties as follows (cut and pasted from his email making the fwd/fwd rounds): "I'll be writing news, coordinating daily coverage by free lancers and the other staff writers at the magazine, creating a daily newsletter of important developments related to chip manufacturing, and posting press releases and articles gleaned from the Lexis-Nexis database of articles."
Good luck to Dave and good on ya to Pete at SI for hiring one of the best semiconductor/microelectronics journos around.
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