GLOBALFOUNDRIES’s New Leadership: A Foundry Perspective from Ajit Manocha

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GLOBALFOUNDRIES is the world’s first full-service semiconductor foundry with a truly global manufacturing and technology footprint. Launched in March 2009 through a partnership between AMD [NYSE: AMD] and the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), GLOBALFOUNDRIES provides a unique combination of advanced technology, manufacturing excellence and global operations.

The GLOBALFOUNDRIES board installed new leadership to accelerate their ability to deliver to customers what they want: more capacity, faster technology development and greater agility. Do they have the right vision, the right plan and the right team to execute on their strategy? They have achieved considerable business momentum, particularly over the last few months. Customers want them to succeed as evidenced by their support and turnout at GTC 2011.
 
In this video, we talk to Ajit Manocha, CEO of GLOBALFOUNDRIES, about the company’s accomplishments, plans, and vision. They were the first foundry to achieve volume production of 28/32nm HKMG semiconductors, beating the world’s leaders. They’ve added some of the world’s top fabless companies to their customer roster, which is now greater than 150. Find out about the importance of customer centricity in the foundry business and how Ajit approaches it. I ask how they did this and delve into the issues of running a semiconductor business with major fab operations on three different continents. This includes the cultural transformation of IDM to foundry in Dresden and what it takes to pull it off.
 
Find out more in this interview …  
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