The core of Foundry 2.0 is Collaborative Device Manufacturing, keeping the intimacy of the IDM internal relationships joined with the flexibility of the foundry-fabless model.
Foundry 2.0 has already seen significant success at GlobalFoundries. It is more like working with two internal departments as opposed to Foundry 1.0's two companies focused too much on their own bottom lines.
https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/2717-foundry-2-0-why-different-why-you-should-care.html
Foundries need to partner for success. They cannot wait until the process is ready and then sit back and wait for designs. It is too slow to get to market and, perhaps more critically for foundries, too slow to get to volume. EDA tools and IP needs to be available well in advance so that customers are ready for volume production ramp at the same time as the fab is.
Foundry 2.0 requires a whole ecosystem of partners (not to mention lots of money).
https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/2598-ajits-semicon-keynote.html
**watch this video, particularly from the 11:25 mark through to the 16:00 mark. (This is from August 2013)
http://www.wesrch.com/electronics/wequest-EL10TL9-the-foundry-2-0-revolution-with-ajit-manocha-of-globalfoundries
It was an eye opener for me..... "The Mini-IDM Model"
