Intervalis Launches The Semiconductor Reporter

Posted on July 19, 2002

Intervalis LLC has announced the launch of The Semiconductor Reporter website, which provides analysis of daily news and issues facing integrated circuit companies and their capital equipment and materials suppliers. The editors of the site cover industry news with industry-leading rapid turnaround, but also provide analysis and commentary -- both their own and others' -- on the important news of the day.

The site was founded by Rob Lineback and Jeremy Young, both of whom carry the title of Editor and Co-Producer. Young and Lineback, who have been writing about the semiconductor industry for over 20 years, were the principal movers behind Semiconductor Business News when it was created in 1997, as publisher and editor, respectively, and operated SBN until recently. Prior to launching SBN, Young and Lineback held top editorial positions at McGraw-Hill's Electronics magazine, EBN, Electronic News, Electronic Business (Today), and Electronic World News.

News about the semiconductor industry is available from a number of sources, but industry veterans Lineback and Young felt that a second-generation site could do a great deal more to help its readers understand the significance of the facts and figures flying across their screens -- in real time. They bring their own experience and insight to the table in several types of pieces, which they call SemiReporter Spin, Reporter's Notebook, and Editorial Opinion. In addition, they reach out to invite other voices to be heard on the site in pieces labeled Executive Position, Analyst View, and Reader Comment.

"The intent is to create a forum for industry participants to share their diverse perspectives so that all of us may understand events at a deeper level more quickly," Young said.

"Two heads are better than one," Lineback added, "but many people working together to analyze new developments can be powerful indeed."

Another industry veteran who has cast his lot with Lineback and Young is Robert Henkel, longtime commentator on events and company strategies in the semiconductor industry. Henkel joined The Wall Street Journal in 1956 and was assigned to the technology beat out of the paper's San Francisco bureau. Henkel served as bureau chief for Electronic News and Electronics magazine, then was named managing editor of Electronics in 1967. In 1971, he moved to BusinessWeek as technology editor and then senior editor. In 1986, Henkel returned to Electronics as editor in chief. In 1988, he moved to CMP Publications as editorial director of EE Times, EBN, and several other publications.

In 1993, Henkel moved to Down-East Maine, where he has been writing a weekly column on the semiconductor industry. The popular column until recently appeared on the Semiconductor Business News site, and is now featured on the pages of The Semiconductor Reporter, along with additional articles written by Henkel.