Kevin O’Buckley to Lead Foundry Services at Intel
Kevin O’Buckley has been appointed as the senior vice president and general manager of Foundry Services at Intel, succeeding Stuart Pann. O’Buckley will lead Intel’s systems foundry growth strategy, aiming to build the world’s first systems foundry for the AI era. Intel Foundry’s business includes technology development, global manufacturing, and customer service. O’Buckley joins Intel with over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, coming from Marvell Technologies and Avera Semiconductor.
Kevin O’Buckley’s appointment as senior vice president and general manager of Foundry Services at Intel aims to bolster the company’s growth strategy in the semiconductor industry.
O’Buckley’s extensive experience in semiconductor companies like Marvell Technologies and Avera Semiconductor brings valuable expertise to Intel’s leadership team.
Intel’s focus on building the world’s first systems foundry for the AI era showcases the company’s commitment to innovation and technological advancement.
Stuart Pann retiring after 35 years of service might lead to a period of transition and adjustment within Intel’s leadership team.
Transitioning to a new senior leader like O’Buckley may pose challenges in adapting to Intel’s existing ecosystem and operations.
O’Buckley will oversee Intel’s systems foundry growth strategy
Kevin O’Buckley is senior vice president and general manager of Foundry Services at Intel Corporation. (Photo: Business Wire)
“Kevin brings a unique blend of expertise from across the semiconductor industry, having served as a senior leader and technologist in both foundry and fabless companies,” said Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger. “As we continue building the world’s first systems foundry for the AI era, Kevin will play a critical role in helping customers achieve their goals by leveraging Intel Foundry’s unique ability to deliver process and packaging technology through a resilient and sustainable supply chain.”
O’Buckley will spearhead the growth of Intel’s foundry business and continue to build out its ecosystem of intellectual property and electronic design automation partners. In this role, O’Buckley will work closely with Intel Foundry’s other senior leaders to fulfill the company’s ambition to create the first system foundry for the AI era.
The Intel Foundry business encompasses Intel’s technology development, global manufacturing, and foundry customer service and ecosystem operations. It brings together all the critical components that fabless customers need to design and manufacture chips for a new era of AI-driven computing.
O’Buckley joins Intel with more than 25 years of semiconductor industry experience. Most recently, he was senior vice president of hardware engineering for the Custom, Compute and Storage Group at Marvell Technologies. He joined Marvell as part of its 2019 acquisition of Avera Semiconductor, where he served as chief executive. He also served as vice president of Product Development at Global Foundries, and before that spent more than 17 years at IBM leading technology development and manufacturing organizations. O’Buckley has a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Alfred University and a Master of Science in electrical engineering from the University of
Pann retires from Intel after 35 years of distinguished service with a wide-ranging legacy of achievements including successfully standing up Intel Foundry under Intel’s new operating model. Pann previously served as senior vice president, chief business transformation officer and general manager of Intel’s Corporate Planning Group.
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