Mr. Morales is an accomplished program vice president, manager, and industry expert with over 25 years of experience in building a multinational top-tier consulting, sales, and research team and driving a set of established businesses. Solid experience in managing strategic partnerships and advisory services with IDC's largest multinational clients. Strong analytical, strategic planning skills, and managing complex projects involving strong collaboration across geographies, functional groups, and business units. Proven leadership skills and instrumental at establishing research and business KPIs.
Mr. Morales is a trusted advisor to leading high tech company executives, financial investors, and bankers on market landscape and direction, product and technology positioning, competitive benchmarking, M&A, HW, and SW technology, and brand health and sustainability. Established relationships with technology suppliers including Intel, Samsung, TSMC, Qualcomm, Huawei, HP, AMD, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Facebook, TI, Micron, UMC, SoftBank, ARM, NXP, and others.
Mr. Morales is the leading advisor and expert analyst for IDC's largest Wall Street clients including investment banking, VC's, and mutual and hedge funds across every major financial region.
Over his career, Mr. Morales has authored and co-authored over 240 reports and studies in the area of semiconductors, mobile, PC, wireless, embedded, IoT, and IT marketplace. His team is responsible for some of the most interesting and evolving tech in our industry including coverage of microprocessors, accelerated computing, storage, memory, sensors and connectivity. His team has been responsible for initiating coverage of emerging technologies for IDC, and driving new research business practices, and creating leading industry market models in DRAM, NAND, Embedded processors and controllers, AI ML architectures, cellular baseband modems, WiFi, cellular broadband, digital consumer, foundry, EMS, and intelligent systems.
His career includes past positions with NEC Electronics and Dataquest.
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The end of last year marked the end of the market correction in the semiconductor industry. IDC will share our latest forecast as we reiterate the market’s key drivers and our expectation of 20% growth this year and double-digit growth in 2025.
IDC expects the semiconductor industry to see a couple of consecutive years of consistent double-digit growth as we continue to see the expansion of compute, AI, Auto, and a long-awaited recovery and replacement cycle that begins in the 2H’24 for PC’s and smartphones as we witness the start of edge-AI. Each of these markets are poised to drive over $100 billion in semiconductors each during our forecast horizon and will complement the total industry size by growing faster than the 5-year CAGR expected for the overall market.
Please join Mr. Morales as he shares his perspective on the semiconductor market and provides some key insights on the key global companies driving the growth including NVIDIA, Qualcomm, TSMC, Intel, AMD, NXP, Samsung, Micron, MediaTek, and others. How will this growth cycle fare for the entire supply chain?