"As the industry shifts from the PC era to a market focused on mobile devices, we have seen increasingly strong interest from customers in migrating to advanced nodes on an accelerated schedule," said GLOBALFOUNDRIES CEO Ajit Manocha. "To help facilitate this migration, we are making significant investments in strengthening our technology leadership, including growing our workforce and adding new capabilities to make Fab 8 the hub of our global technology operations. New York State's continued support of the semiconductor industry has created a strong collaborative ecosystem and helped pave the way for this additional investment. The new TDC will help us bridge between the lab and the fab by taking research conducted with partners and further developing the technologies to make them ready for volume manufacturing."

http://www.globalfoundries.com/newsroom/press-releases/2013/12/28/globalfoundries-to-build-r-d-facility-in-new-york-to-accelerate-advanced-manufacturing-technologies-for-global-customers

Also check out(all the way to the end):

http://www.semiconwest.org/sites/semiconwest.org/files/docs/Opening%20Keynote_Ajit%20Manocha_GLOBALFOUNDRIES._Public.pdf