Vice President, Global Sourcing Equipment Materials, Director Fab Materials Organization
Intel
Bruce J. Tufts is vice president and director of the Fab Materials Organization in the Manufacturing Supply Operations group at Intel Corporation. Bruce is responsible for Intel’s business engagement with the materials supplier ecosystem as well as driving the group’s strategy to enable technology cadence, quality, availability, and affordability for both development and high-volume manufacturing of advanced process technology nodes.
Since joining Intel in 1994, Tufts has held various technical and management positions in the thin films area and contributed to the development of dielectric and metals materials, analytic metrology technology, site safety, quality, and Intellectual Property management and manufacturing/foundry services. As of 2019, Bruce has supported the development and transfer to high-volume manufacturing of over ten generations of Intel process technology.
Tufts received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of California, Davis, and completed graduate and post-doctoral work at Stanford University, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany. He earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from Caltech. He holds several patents in semiconductor processing and has received two Intel Achievement Awards for process implementation of novel thin-film materials.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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