GlobalFoundries Champions ‘Essential Technologies’ over Moore’s Law

GlobalFoundries’ CTO Gregg Bartlett tells EE Times Europe why legacy nodes, power GaN, and MRAM still drive real-world innovation—and how imec helps fuel that mission.

By Pat Brans, EETimes Europe | August 25, 2025 

At ITF World 2025, GlobalFoundries CTO Gregg Bartlett delivered a provocative message: The semiconductor industry has overhyped Moore’s Law and underinvested in the foundational technologies that underpin the modern world. “Moore’s Law gets too much airtime,” Bartlett said in his keynote. “Nodes like 130 nm and 90 nm may seem outdated, but they’re still essential technologies, and they’ve even evolved.”

In an exclusive interview, Bartlett reinforced the vision he’d offered his keynote audience at the conference, held in Antwerp, Belgium, in May. “If I have one goal,” he told EE Times Europe, “it’s to kill terms like ‘legacy’ and ‘more than Moore.’ They’re no longer meaningful. “Technologies like GaN and silicon photonics don’t scale along Moore’s trajectory. They require different innovation models—and different partners.”

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