Following in the vein of the whole 6 degrees of seperation concept.

Some have suggested Rory Read.

What follows here is a speculative attempt to provide some support to that speculation.

Ajit Manocha and Global Foundries......former CEO of Global Foundries....spun off from AMD....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalFoundries

Ajit Manocha and IBM.......SAN JOSE, Calif.—Nov. 29, 2012—The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing and design, today announced that the SIA Board of Directors has elected GLOBALFOUNDRIES CEO Ajit Manocha as its 2013 chairman and Dr. John E. Kelly III, IBM senior vice president and director of IBM Research, as its 2013 vice chairman.

http://globalfoundries.com/newsroom/press-releases/2014/10/20/globalfoundries-to-acquire-ibm%27s-microelectronics-business

Rory Read and AMD.......former CEO of.....AMD.......a rich history of development and revolutionary product releases...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices

Rory Read and IBM

He previously spent 23 years at IBM serving in various global leadership roles.[15] He worked in IBM's Asia Pacific region as general manager, Business Innovation Services for Asia Pacific.[16] As Managing Partner for IBM’s Business Consulting Services Industrial Sector, Read led the division through a turnaround that significantly improved gross margins, drove new customer acquisitions and generated double digit revenue growth and operating profitability.[1] He was vice president of IBM eBusiness Transformation, IBM.com, where he led a business team that produced more than $1 billion in company-wide savings and $21 billion in sales.[17]

FACT SHEET: IBM AND AMD RELATIONSHIP MILESTONES

IBM and AMD have a rich history of collaboration and have delivered top commercial and highperformance
computing solutions through the companies’ long-standing relationship. Following is an
overview of key milestones in the relationship from the past decade.
MILESTONES
1997 • August: IBM’s Consumer Division chooses AMD-K6® MMX® processor technology
to support models of the IBM Aptiva line of PCs.
1998 • April: IBM announces the availability of two new PC models for its Aptiva E Series;
the first systems shipped that feature AMD-K6 300 MHz technology.
1999 • June: IBM announces the launch of the Aptiva S series of PCs built on the new
AMD Athlon™ processor.
• August: AMD meets with IBM to discuss design of the AMD Opteron™ processor,
the first phase of a close partnership around the development of systems based on
the server/workstation processor.
2002 • July: AMD announces IBM DB2 database software for Linux®-based enterprise
database solution that’s built on the x86-64 architecture.
2003 • January: IBM and AMD enter into an agreement to jointly develop next-generation
semiconductor process technologies for use in future high-performance products.
• January: IBM and AMD become the first companies to be named as Technology
Partners of UnitedLinux.
• April: IBM joins AMD at a New York City launch event to announce its plans to
offer a server product for high-performance computing based on the new AMD
Opteron processor -- the first global OEM to launch a system based on the
processor.
• June: IBM unveils its first AMD Opteron processor-based server at ClusterWorld,
San Jose, CA, and commits to ship products by Fall 2003.
• August: AMD and IBM’s joint innovation wins a LinuxWorld award for “Best Cluster
Solution.”
• November: IBM ships first AMD Opteron processor-based server, the eServer 325;
announces the first AMD Opteron processor-powered super cluster, the IBM
eServer 1350 supercluster.
2004 • March: AMD and IBM announce that the AMD Opteron processor will power a new
line of IBM workstations, the IntelliStation A Pro.
• May: IBM announced the addition of AMD Opteron processor-based systems to its
Deep Computing Capacity on Demand Center in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
• May: AMD announces additional enterprise software support from IBM with
availability of AMD64 product optimizations.
• September: IBM debuts its eServer 326, the only second-generation server based
on the AMD Opteron processor and the first two-way, rack-dense server to
announce support for the AMD dual-core specification.
• September: AMD and IBM announce that they have extended their process
technology partnership through the end of 2008.
• December: AMD and IBM announce that they have developed a new process in
strained silicon transistor technology.
2005 • April: Upon AMD’s debut of Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors, IBM announces
strong support with its eServer and IntelliStation product lines.
• June: AMD and IBM jointly present a paper at the 2005 VLSI Symposium on
Technology in Kyoto, Japan, detailing the successful fabrication of a high
performance 65nm SRAM cell and a functional dual-core microprocessor test chip
containing a 76Mb SRAM cache.
• June: IBM announces the expansion of eServer Cluster 1350, including support
for all single- and Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors.
• July: AMD and IBM join Infineon Technologies, Micron Technology and the
University at Albany-SUNY (UAlbany) College of Nanoscale Science and
Engineering (CNSE), to form the International Venture for Nanolithography
(INVENT) initiative.
• July: IBM ships the AMD Opteron processor-based LS20 BladeCenter.
• November: AMD and IBM again extend their process technology development
agreement to include early exploratory research of new transistor, interconnect,
lithography and die-to-package connection technologies through 2011.
• December: AMD and IBM unveil new, more power-efficient 65nm semiconductor
process technologies.
• December: Chevron Corporation selects an IBM cluster based on AMD Opteron
processors for oil exploration.
2006 • February: AMD joins Blade.org, an open community that will develop and advance
next-generation technologies for blades.
• February: Georgia Institute Of Technology accelerates drug discovery with a new
IBM supercomputing cluster based on AMD Opteron processors.
• April: IBM and AMD join the Green Grid, an association of IT professionals seeking
to lower the overall consumption of power in datacenters around the globe.
• April: SSA and IBM team on an ERP solution integrated on an AMD Opteron
processor-based BladeCenter Linux platform.
• May: IBM and AMD partner with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and New York
State to create the world’s most powerful university-based supercomputing center.
• May: Tech Data begins to offer AMD Opteron processor-based IBM BladeCenter
systems.
• June: IBM tops the annual TOP500 list of the world’s highest-performing
supercomputers this year, with a total of 243 systems -- nearly half of the list --
many of which are powered by AMD Opteron processors.
• August: IBM announces e-mail archiving solution preloaded on AMD Opteron
processor-powered IBM BladeCenter servers for small and mid-sized businesses.
• August: IBM unveils five new platforms on AMD’s Next-Generation AMD Opteron
processor, including the x3455, x3655, x3755, LS21 and LS41, which represent
the evolution of a consistent and proven architecture as well as the continued
success of the IBM-AMD partnership in delivering customer-centric solutions to
end users.

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SYNOPSYS

Notable persons

• Deborah A. Coleman, independent director, former CFO and VP of Operations at Apple Computer

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Questions

What are we to think ?

Is there more dots to connect with respect to this ?

Will Rory Read become CEO of PTK ?

What would attract him to PTK ?

If he did take on the role with PTK, would that then mean that equity stakes in PTK would come from GF, IBM, Synopsys, and maybe even AMD ? Would then also our missing executives end up at these companies either as a relationship specialist or executive board member ?

If not him, then who ?

IBM's role will be what ? If anything.

Does it seem that PTK is taking some serious steps to become not just a revolutionary technology provider, but to become a world class player in the industry, with similarities to an Intel or the like ?

Are we on the cusp of history here ?

Will PTK be the legacy stock of a generation ?