James F. Hines

Mr. Hines is a principal analyst in Gartner Dataquest, where he is part of the Semiconductor Manufacturing group.
He is responsible for worldwide research in the semiconductor foundry market, capacity supply and demand analysis, wafer pricing and wafer fab outsourcing trends.
Mr. Hines has been with Gartner since 1997.
Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Hines worked at capital equipment makers Applied Materials and Genus, where he was in product management and marketing.
Before this, he was a semiconductor sales engineer at Texas Instruments.
Mr. Hines received a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara.