Bruce J. Tufts is vice president in the Technology and Manufacturing Group and the director of the Fab Materials Organization in Global Supply Chain business unit 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 PhD 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.
Bruce and family live in the country-side west of Hillsboro with their dogs and cats. Bruce’ balances the intensity of Intel-life with a focus on his family; he enjoys time skiing or hiking with his wife and kids, running the mutts and time on the tractor.