3 TCS AI for Business Study TCS AI for Business Study – Technology SemiConductors Report Additionally, seeking to find correlations between a company’s business success and its approach to implementing artificial intelligence, each executive’s company was ranked alongside the others in that same industry for its financial success, as measured by a combination of revenue growth and profit growth over the last three years. These “Pacesetters” represent the top 43% of companies — 10 companies – among the semiconductor executives we surveyed. Where relevant, this report notes differences between the industry’s overall survey answers and the responses of its Pacesetters. The findings in this report reflect a survey sample of 23 senior executives — CEOs, divisional and business unit heads, and senior VPs or VPs with profit-and-loss responsibility — working for major semiconductors companies headquartered in the following countries:  Austria  Belgium  France  Germany  Ireland  Japan  Netherlands  USA