March 2, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-03-02) (as a spin-off of AMD)
Headquarters
Malta, New York, U.S.
Key people
Ahmed Yahia Al Idrissi (chairman)
Thomas Caulfield (CEO)
Services
Semiconductor manufacturer
Revenue
US$8.17 billion (2023)
Operating income
US$1.13 billion (2023)
Net income
US$1.02 billion (2023)
Total assets
US$18.0 billion (2023)
Total equity
US$11.1 billion (2023)
Number of employees
12,000 (2023)
Website
gf.com
Footnotes / references [1][2][3]
GlobalFoundries Inc. (GF) is a multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company incorporated in the Cayman Islands and headquartered in Malta, New York.[4] Created by the divestiture of the manufacturing arm of AMD, the company was privately owned by Mubadala Investment Company, a sovereign wealth fund of the United Arab Emirates, until an initial public offering (IPO) in October 2021.
The company manufactures integrated circuits on wafers designed for markets such as smart mobile devices, automotive, aerospace and defense, consumer internet of things (IoT) and for data centers and communications infrastructure.
As of 2023, GlobalFoundries is the third-largest semiconductor foundry by revenue.[5][6][7] It is the only one with operations in Singapore, the European Union, and the United States: one 200 mm and one 300 mm wafer fabrication plant in Singapore; one 300 mm plant in Dresden, Germany; one 200 mm plant in Essex Junction, Vermont (where it is the largest private employer)[8] and one 300 mm plant in Malta, New York.[9]
GlobalFoundries is a "Trusted Foundry" for the U.S. federal government and has similar designations in Singapore and Germany, including certified international Common Criteria standard (ISO 15408, CC Version 3.1).[10][11]
On October 28, 2021, the company sold shares in an IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange at US$47 each, at the higher end of its targeted price range, and raised about US$2.6 billion.[12]
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to the chipset. No integrated graphics. Node/fabrication process: GlobalFoundries 14 LP. v t e Core Complexes (CCX) × cores per CCX Common features of...
October 2019. "GLOBALFOUNDRIES and TSMC Announce Resolution of Global Disputes Through Broad Global Patent Cross-License". GlobalFoundries. 28 October 2019...
Intel, Samsung, and Texas Instruments, examples of pure play foundries are GlobalFoundries, TSMC, and UMC, and examples of fabless companies are AMD, Nvidia...
to GlobalFoundries in 2015; as part of the agreement, IBM gave its Burlington and East Fishkill factories and $1.5 billion in cash to GlobalFoundries in...
East Fishkill, NY 300mm Facility". GLOBALFOUNDRIES. April 22, 2019. Anderson, Eric (April 22, 2019). "GlobalFoundries selling East Fishkill plant". Times...
processors, the company later outsourced its manufacturing, after GlobalFoundries was spun off in 2009. AMD was founded in 1969 by Jerry Sanders and...
the semiconductor foundry companies GlobalFoundries, and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (which later merged with GlobalFoundries). ATIC has invested...
Electronics and licensed to GlobalFoundries. Polaris 30 chips are produced on a 12 nm FinFET process, developed by Samsung and GlobalFoundries. Supported display...
between Intel's "14 nm" and "10 nm" processes in transistor density, and GlobalFoundries' "7 nm" processes are dimensionally similar to Intel's "10 nm" process...
silicon design. Google has partnered with SkyWater Technology and GlobalFoundries to open-source their Process Design Kits for 180nm, 130nm and 90nm...
for up to four DIMMs of up to DDR3-1866 memory Fabrication 32 nm on GlobalFoundries SOI process; Die size: 228 mm2, with 1.178 billion transistors 5 GT/s...
pitch or gate pitch on a "10nm" device is ten nanometers. For example, GlobalFoundries' "7 nm" processes are dimensionally similar to Intel's "10 nm" process...
to 280 MW. 2012: GlobalFoundries and STMicroelectronics sign a sourcing agreement for 28 nm and 20 nm FD-SOI devices. GlobalFoundries agreed to manufacture...
industry, a semiconductor fabrication plant (commonly called a fab; sometimes foundry) is a factory for semiconductor device fabrication. Fabs require many expensive...
gate process technology. GlobalFoundries offers a "28nm" foundry process called the "28SLPe" ("28nm Super Low Power") foundry process, which uses high-K...
in transistor density to TSMC's 7 nm process. As another example, GlobalFoundries' 12 and 14 nm processes have similar feature sizes. An improved type...
These include (before the act passed on August 9, 2022): In July 2021, GlobalFoundries announced plans to build a new $1 billion fab in Upstate New York....
support: MMX, Enhanced 3DNow! Platform "Virgo" 32 nm fabrication on GlobalFoundries SOI process Socket FM2 CPU: Piledriver L1 Cache: 16 KB Data per core...
began shipping the first embedded MRAM samples in conjunction with GlobalFoundries. By 2010, Everspin had begun ramping production and sold its first...
10 nm semiconductors, while TSMC and Samsung can both produce 5 nm. GlobalFoundries, an American-headquartered firm, uses a 12 nm process for its most...
FinFET technology, developed by Samsung Electronics and licensed to GlobalFoundries. The series consists of desktop graphics cards and APUs aimed at desktops...
joined GlobalFoundries in July 2015 with GlobalFoundries' acquisition of IBM's Microelectronics Division. His retirement from Globalfoundries was announced...
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