Industry GlobalFoundries confirms $1.5 billion award from the US Chips and Science Act GF is spending billions to improve its domestic chip manufacturing capabilities By Alfonso Maruccia, November 22, 2024, 3:01 PM
Industry Hardware TSMC and GlobalFoundries secure $13B in Chips Act funds ahead of Trump's inauguration Trump has criticized the grants and a republican-controlled congress will likely restrict them By Daniel Sims, November 9, 2024, 1:40 PM 9 comments
Hardware Industry Startup taps GlobalFoundries to produce 166x more efficient embedded chips Partnership combines Efficient's novel architecture with GloFo's manufacturing By Zo Ahmed, August 30, 2024, 2:17 PM
Industry GlobalFoundries is suing IBM for IP and trade secret violation The two former partners are once again clashing horns in courts By Alfonso Maruccia, April 20, 2023, 1:10 PM
Industry Hardware Blurred lines: the difference between fabless and foundry companies A rose by any other name By Jonathan Goldberg, March 12, 2023, 10:29 AM
Industry Hardware Qualcomm extends GlobalFoundries semiconductor partnership through 2028 The agreement more than doubles their existing long-term partnership By Shawn Knight, August 8, 2022, 12:07 PM
Industry Software GlobalFoundries and STMicroelectronics are in talks to build a chip fab in France The EU could score another win for its semiconductor industry By Adrian Potoroaca, June 16, 2022, 8:36 AM
Industry GlobalFoundries revenue increased 56 percent YoY as chip demand persists The company's first financial report since going public By Shawn Knight, December 1, 2021, 11:27 AM
Hardware Industry GlobalFoundries files for an IPO, could be valued at $25 billion The AMD spinoff is in a great position to profit from the surging demand for semiconductors By Adrian Potoroaca, October 6, 2021, 11:59 AM
Industry GlobalFoundries shoots down Intel buyout rumor, will move ahead with IPO Intel hasn't formally put an offer on the table... yet By Shawn Knight, July 21, 2021, 9:22 AM
Industry Intel reportedly in talks to buy semiconductor giant GlobalFoundries for $30 billion A part of Intel's new chip manufacturing strategy? By Rob Thubron, July 16, 2021, 5:18 AM 16 comments
Industry Hardware GlobalFoundries reveals new strategy, $4B fab expansion The big picture of semiconductor manufacturing By Bob O’Donnell, June 22, 2021, 9:15 AM 8 comments
Car Tech Industry Today's automotive supply chains are enormously complex, and semiconductors have an important role to play there GlobalFoundries and Bosch emphasize shift in automotive SoCs By Bob O’Donnell, March 9, 2021, 10:02 AM
Industry GlobalFoundries and TSMC settle all patent disputes, reach cross-licensing agreement A defining moment in patent dispute resolution By Shawn Knight, October 29, 2019, 12:41 PM 11 comments
Industry Hardware GlobalFoundries sues TSMC in the US and Germany for patent infringement The manufacturing giant seeks an import ban on products from Nvidia and Apple By Adrian Potoroaca, August 26, 2019, 3:40 PM
Industry Electronics Chip makers are slowing down on the way to 7nm Development costs are becoming a problem for some By Greg Synek, September 4, 2018, 9:12 AM 8 comments
Industry Hardware Major GlobalFoundries restructuring underway, abandons 7nm, doubles down on 12nm/14nm nodes Parts ways with AMD at 7nm By Paul Taylor, August 28, 2018, 6:56 AM
Industry Globalfoundries is reducing its entire workforce by 5 percent Claims no delays to 7nm and future chip production By Greg Synek, June 13, 2018, 9:46 AM
Industry Electronics Samsung is ready to produce 8nm chips for mainstream use Die shrinks incoming for 2018 By Greg Synek, October 18, 2017, 12:49 PM
News Around the Web Weekend tech reading: GF launches 7nm FinFET, PC vs Xbox One X on pricing, FCC held cell phones back for decades By Matthew DeCarlo, June 18, 2017, 11:00 AM 8 comments
Industry Hardware IBM's breakthrough process paves the way for densely-packed 5nm chips Processors built off of this new structure are expected to hit the market in 2019 or 2020 By Jose Vilches, June 5, 2017, 9:15 AM
Hardware AMD's top-end Zen server chip will reportedly pack 32 cores / 64 threads and 64MB of L3 cache By Shawn Knight, June 16, 2016, 10:15 AM 13 comments
Hardware Electronics Researchers develop ultra-fast light-based microprocessor By Shawn Knight, December 23, 2015, 6:45 PM 11 comments
Hardware AMD has reportedly hired Samsung, GlobalFoundries to co-produce its next chips By Shawn Knight, December 22, 2015, 5:45 PM
Hardware Industry IBM reportedly paying Globalfoundries $1.5 billion to shed its semiconductor business By Himanshu Arora, October 20, 2014, 10:30 AM