Globalfoundries, a semiconductor foundry company formed by a joint venture between AMD and Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), announced the appointment of Gregg Bartlett as senior vice president of technology and research and development. Bartlett comes with 25 years of experience in technical and management positions at Freescale Semiconductor and its predecessor, Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector. He most recently served as vice president of design technology at Freescale.

Bartlett succeeds Craig Sander, the R&D leader during the initial launch of Globalfoundries. Sander will now be handling a number of special projects, reporting directly to company CEO Doug Grose. Bartlett will relocate from Austin to upstate New York, where he will oversee collaborative R&D activities with the IBM Alliance for low-power and high-performance semiconductor process technology.