GlobalFoundries, the provider of advanced
semiconductor manufacturing
technology, in May appointed Dr. Thomas
Caulfield as senior vice president and
general manager of the company’s 300mm
semiconductor wafer manufacturing facility
(Fab 8) in Malta.
Caulfield, with more than 20 years of
technical and global executive experience,
will lead the operations, expansion and
ramp-up of semiconductor manufacturing
production at Fab 8, where GlobalFoundries
supports customers on advanced
semiconductor manufacturing technology
platforms, including 28 nanometer (nm),
20nm, and the recently announced 14nm
FinFET platform.
“Tom is a proven and respected industry
leader with more than two decades of semiconductor
technology and manufacturing
experience and we are excited to have
him join our team to drive the next phase
of growth at Fab 8,” said GlobalFoundries
CEO Sanjay Jha.
“We are expanding our Fab 8 manufacturing
campus, strengthening strategic partnerships,
and deepening customer relationships
so we can offer our customers leading-edge
technology and a more flexible and cost effective
way of doing business,” Jha said.
Caulfield’s career spans engineering,
management, operational leadership and
global executive experience with leading
technology companies.
Most recently, Caulfield served as president
and chief operations officer at Soraa,
a leading developer of GaN on GaNTM (gallium
nitride on gallium nitride) solid-state
lighting technology. Prior to Soraa, Caulfield
served as president and COO of Ausra,
a provider of large-scale concentrated solar
power solutions for concentrated solar
power solutions for electricity generation
and industrial steam production.
Before leading global operations at
Ausra, Caulfield served as executive vice
president of sales, marketing and customer
service at Novellus Systems, Inc. where he
oversaw world-wide field operations for
over 1,200 employees.
Prior to joining Novellus Systems, Caulfield
spent 17 years at IBM in a variety of
senior leadership roles, ultimately serving
as vice president of 300mm semiconductor
operations for IBM’s Microelectronics
Division, leading its state-of-the-art wafer
fabrication operations in East Fishkill, N.Y.
Construction on the Fab 8 project began
in July 2009 and the facility is currently
supporting multiple customers on multiple
technology platforms, as well as completing
construction on additional manufacturing
facilities to support increased customer
demand, company officials said.
Since 2009 the project has created approximately
2,200 new direct jobs and
expects to create an additional 600 jobs
through the end of the year, supporting
more than approximately 10,000 indirect
jobs in the economy based on research by
the Semiconductor Industry Association,
according to the company. In addition, the
project has required more than 6 million
man hours to complete and created more
than 10,000 new construction jobs and thousands
of additional construction-related
jobs since 2009.
Photo Courtesy GlobalFoundries