Ex-IBMer Fired Up for Foundry

Rick Merritt, EETimes
7/16/2015 08:00 AM EDT

SAN FRANCISCO – Gary Patton is like a man on fire. The former IBM semiconductor research manager is now in the hot seat to create the next two generations of semiconductors at Globalfoundries. As much as any of the several thousand people at Semicon West here he can tell you that’s not going to be easy.

“The value proposition of chip scaling is becoming more challenged, so we have to think of creative ways to provide value and 2.5- and 3-D chip stacks are a great example of that,” he told EE Times in an interview above the show floor.

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