Hans Stork Leaves TI, Joins Applied Materials
David Lammers, News Editor -- Semiconductor International, 10/25/2007 5:45:00 AM
Hans Stork, who worked at Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) since 2001 as senior vice president of silicon technology development, has left TI and joined Applied Materials Inc.
Applied Materials Inc. named Stork as chief technology officer (CTO) and group vice president of its silicon systems group (SSG).
“I am delighted to welcome Hans to the leadership team of the Silicon Systems Group,” said Tom St. Dennis, senior vice president and general manager, SSG. “His industry experience, strong customer perspective and technical leadership should prove to be a wonderful resource for Applied Materials’ customers.”
Stork will lead the roadmap for Applied Materials’ silicon technology equipment, oversee integrated technology development across the silicon products, and coordinate SSG’s industry and university engagements.
Kevin Ritchie, TI’s senior vice president of the technology and manufacturing group, now is responsible for all of TI’s process technology and manufacturing, said Tish LeBlanc, a TI spokeswoman.
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TI decided in January of this year to develop its 32 nm and beyond transistor technology at its major foundry partners, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (TSMC, Hsinchu, Taiwan) and UMC (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
While TI continues to operate several analog fabs and a 300 mm logic fab in Dallas, its Richardson, Texas, fab shell remains unequipped. Intense industry speculation surrounds TI’s intentions of whether or not to build out the shell for 32 nm production or rely on foundries for most of its leading-edge silicon at some point.
Stork, who holds a doctorate from Stanford University, joined TI in 2001 from Hewlett-Packard. Much of his career was spent at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, where he worked on silicon germanium technology and managed the exploratory device and technology programs at IBM Research.
Stork served as TI representative to Sematech, the Semiconductor Research Corp. and several government technology advisory panels. In 2004, he was named as TI’s chief technology officer.
