IC Insights Appoints Industry Veteran

US-based IC Insights, which provides MR for the integrated circuit industry, has appointed Rob Lineback as Senior Market Research Analyst. Lineback has spent most of his 25-year career as a journalist, reporting on semiconductor business trends, technology, and global suppliers.

Prior to joining IC Insights, Lineback was a senior technical editor for Solid State Technology magazine and WaferNews. He co-founded Internet-based The Semiconductor Reporter, and was founding editor of SiliconStrategies.com (also known as Semiconductor Business News). Lineback has also held chief editor positions at Electronic Business Today, Electronic World News, Electronic Buyers' News and Electronics magazine, and was the European editor of Electronic News in the 1990s. In the 1970s, he worked on daily newspapers.

Bill McClean, President of IC Insights, says the new appointment is a key part of the company's plan to offer two new research reports over the next six months. McClean says Lineback's 'industry experience, broad knowledge, and unique perspectives will be put to good use to further develop and enhance our products and services'.

IC Insights is online at www.icinsights.com

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