Lawrence Semiconductor Appoints Don Garrison as General Manager and COO

Insider Brief

• Lawrence Semiconductor has appointed Don Garrison as General Manager and Chief Operating Officer to lead manufacturing, engineering, quality and customer delivery.
• Garrison brings more than 25 years of semiconductor manufacturing experience, including leadership roles at Littelfuse, NXP Semiconductors, GlobalFoundries and Intel.
• Lawrence is expanding capacity for photonics, sensing, quantum computing and defense customers, with 14 epitaxial reactors operating at its Tempe, Arizona facility.

PRESS RELEASE — Lawrence Semiconductor, a U.S.-owned manufacturer of engineered silicon and germanium epitaxial materials, today announced that Don Garrison has joined as General Manager and Chief Operating Officer. Garrison reports to Chief Executive Officer Ali Torabi and leads manufacturing, engineering, quality and customer delivery as the company expands capacity to meet growing demand from photonics, sensing, quantum computing and defense customers.

As a merchant epitaxy foundry, Lawrence manufactures the engineered layers that customers use as starting material for advanced microelectronic, photonic and sensing devices. Its portfolio includes specialized silicon, germanium, silicon-germanium (SiGe), germanium-tin (GeSn) and isotopically enriched silicon-28 epitaxial materials for photonics, sensing, quantum computing, defense and other advanced semiconductor applications. Lawrence is the only merchant source in the United States for production GeSn and silicon-28 epitaxy and one of very few in the world.