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CEO Interview: Hassane El-Khoury is Getting Onsemi Focused

EE Times Current · 20 Aug 2021 · 32m

What this episode covers

Hassane El-Khoury, CEO of Onsemi, explains the company's strategic transformation from a broad portfolio to a focused strategy on automotive and industrial markets, with adjacency in cloud and 5G. He details how Onsemi will leverage its leadership in power efficiency and packaging technology to compete against peers, while committing to net-zero emissions by 2040. The company is also executing a 'fab-lighter' manufacturing strategy, including acquiring a 300mm wafer fab from GlobalFoundries, to optimize capacity and reduce fixed costs amid global supply chain disruptions.

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Onsemi, Cypress Semiconductor, Infineon, Fairchild Semiconductor, GlobalFoundries, AutoX, DARPA, Samsung, Xanadu, Pulsic, NXP, Free Scale Semiconductor, Motorola
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Keith Jackson, T.J. Rogers, Brian Santo, Junko Yoshida

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