Mario Morales is the program vice president of IDC's enabling technologies and semiconductor research. He is responsible for in-depth analysis, evaluation of emerging markets, forecasting, and research of major semiconductor application areas such as embedded and intelligent systems, wireless, personal computing, wired communications, and consumer.

Mr. Morales is an industry analyst with over 25 years of extensive experience in managing a multinational research team of analysts, management consultants, and business development managers, Author of over 220 reports and studies in the area of semiconductors, mobile, PC, wireless, embedded, and ICT marketplace. 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. His career includes past positions with NEC Electronics and Dataquest.