GlobalFoundries

GlobalFoundries plans up to 800 layoffs despite reporting record profits

Record income? Tick. CHIPS Act subsidies coming? Tick. Yet chipmaker tries to make Wall Stret happier still

Systems05 Dec 2022 | 7

GlobalFoundries cuts jobs to slash operating costs

Contract chipmaker fails to detail numbers of layoffs or planned timeframe in email to staff

Systems14 Nov 2022 | 3

Australian quantum startup enlists GlobalFoundries to develop mass qubit production

Company claims tech can detect quantum information at room temperature

Systems07 Sep 2022 |

Qualcomm, GlobalFoundries double down on US chip production

The line for chip subsidies and tax breaks is getting longer by the minute

Systems08 Aug 2022 | 7

STMicroelectronics and GlobalFoundries to build wafer fab in France

US and Swiss companies to receive 'significant' French investment

On-Prem11 Jul 2022 | 8

GlobalFoundries, STMicroelectronics said to mull French fab

For what purpose, as 'energy efficient chips with advanced technology' really doesn't quite narrow it down?

Systems15 Jun 2022 | 3

GlobalFoundries’ chipmaking machine unfazed by global disruptions

Records for revenue, gross margin in Q1 as others take a hit

Systems11 May 2022 | 4

GlobalFoundries continues chip design’s transition to the cloud

Putting silicon in the cloud so you can design silicon in the cloud

SaaS24 Mar 2022 |

GlobalFoundries' new silicon photonics tech gets big buy-in

Nvidia, Cisco, and others throw weight behind new manufacturing platform

On-Prem08 Mar 2022 | 9

Ford taking control of chip supply in Globalfoundries deal

Sick of taking second best, car industry makes its own deals

Personal Tech18 Nov 2021 | 9

Globalfoundries files for IPO

Deal could value chip maker at $25bn

On-Prem04 Oct 2021 | 3

GlobalFoundries confidentially files paperwork for $25bn IPO – report

Plus: Toyota, Volkswagen to cut production due to component drought

On-Prem19 Aug 2021 | 1

GlobalFoundries to build second chip fab next to NY HQ

And increase output of Fab 8 plant by 150,000 wafers per year

On-Prem19 Jul 2021 | 2

TSMC reveals plans for further expansion, progress on 3nm process, evolving car tech, amid solid Q1 results

Meanwhile Intel reportedly eyes off buying Global Foundry

On-Prem16 Jul 2021 | 3

AMD promises to spend $1.6bn on 12nm, 14nm chips from GlobalFoundries

Also wriggles out of exclusivity deal

On-Prem14 May 2021 | 19

GlobalFoundries shifts HQ from Silicon Valley to join its tip-top chip fab in New York

Empire State plant pledges to alleviate semiconductor shortage

On-Prem27 Apr 2021 | 3

GlobalFoundries calls off the dogs to reach semiconductor patent sharing deal with TSMC

In two months? That was quick

On-Prem29 Oct 2019 | 3

Chips 'n fish: Globalfoundries casts patent net at rival TSMC

25 complaints target Taiwan-based chipmaker and its manufacturing customers

On-Prem26 Aug 2019 | 10

GlobalFoundries scuttles 7nm chip plans claiming no demand

AMD promptly dumps it and hires TSMC for next-gen chips

Personal Tech27 Aug 2018 | 18

IBM gets green light to sell off chips biz to GlobalFoundries

US regulators furrow brows, frown, nod

On-Prem30 Jun 2015 |

IBM sued for talking up semiconductor business it couldn't give away

Firm alleges investors didn't realize Big Blue would need to PAY to have its chips hauled off

Channel03 Mar 2015 | 23

IBM jobs axe: 'The cuts have STARTED and are spreading' sigh staff

Here comes Ginni Rometty to chop off your head

On-Prem28 Jan 2015 | 42

IBM, backing away from hardware? NEVER!

HPC Blog Don't be so sure, so-surers

Channel29 Oct 2014 | 59

IBM can't give away its chip business: report

Dangled $1bn before GlobalFoundries, which asked for more

Channel06 Aug 2014 | 21

NO SALE: IBM won't cash in its chips with GlobalFoundries after all

Chip fab firm wanted IBM's brains but thought its facilities had 'little or no value' – report

On-Prem25 Jul 2014 | 13

Things that make you go hmm: GlobalFoundries hires ex-IBM chip fabber

There are rumours it'll buy Big Blue's chip plants

Channel10 Jul 2014 | 6

Samsung, GlobalFoundries ink exclusive, multi-year 14nm FinFET deal

Customers can 'save literally hundreds of millions of dollars in design costs,' they claim

Personal Tech17 Apr 2014 | 2

Apple chippery sticking with Samsung or moving to GlobalFoundries?

Or maybe TSMC? The rumor deluge continues apace

Personal Tech15 Jul 2013 | 1

Top chip baker: Rough times, high costs, tech hurdles ahead

SEMICON 2013 GlobalFoundries CEO laments EUV tardiness, promises rolled-up sleeves

Personal Tech10 Jul 2013 | 6

GlobalFoundries CEO: Europe must 'wake up' and help industry

Emphasis on innovation over manufacturing helps Asia, not EU

Channel14 Dec 2012 | 10

AMD bites bullet, slashes chip orders

Downside: hefty penalty. Upside: leaner inventory

Channel07 Dec 2012 | 18

ARM tags GlobalFoundries for future chip tech

Doing the 20 nanometer two-step

Systems13 Aug 2012 | 5

AMD cuts loose GlobalFoundries stake

It's fabulous to be fabless

Channel06 Mar 2012 | 4

3D processor-memory mashups take center stage

ISSCC 'I have seen the future, and it is stacked'

HPC24 Feb 2012 | 16

IBM helps GlobalFoundries ramp New York foundry

How long before GloFo buys Big Blue's fabs?

Personal Tech10 Jan 2012 |

New York drops $400m to lure next-gen wafer bakers

'We don't have earthquakes here very often'

Channel27 Sep 2011 | 8

GlobalFoundries shuffles top brass

Hey, AMD. Want some sloppy seconds?

On-Prem17 Jun 2011 | 1

Cray XK6 super mates Opterons with Nvidia GPU workhorses

Ceepie-geepies all around

HPC24 May 2011 | 6

Big Blue dons oven mitts for ARM wafer bake

Samsung chip pact too

Channel17 Jan 2011 | 14

GlobalFoundries says Intel process squeezes chip devs

GTC 2010 Future chips: extreme, ultraviolet & metal

Channel06 Sep 2010 | 1

AMD chief hails Intel-assisted 'transformation'

Litigation pays

Channel21 Jan 2010 | 7

AMD's GlobalFoundries consumes Chartered Semi rival

Twice as many fabs as the Beatles

On-Prem14 Jan 2010 | 2

AMD's former chip arm to bake Qualcomm wafers

GlobalFoundries lands third customer

Personal Tech07 Jan 2010 |

Ruiz out as Global Foundries chairman

Another casualty of Galleon-New Castle insider trading?

On-Prem02 Nov 2009 | 3

ATIC ponies up $3.9bn to buy Chartered

Crunch time in the chip biz

On-Prem08 Sep 2009 | 1

GlobalFoundries inks wafer baker deal with STMicro

One down, many more to go

Channel30 Jul 2009 |

AMD celebrates 500 million CPU sales

What price a billion?

Channel22 Jul 2009 | 4

AMD fab spin-off to break super-skinny ground

Globalfoundries' NY wafer baker

Personal Tech10 Jun 2009 | 2

AMD's former chip-making unit dubbed 'Globalfoundries'

'The Foundry Company' no more

Channel04 Mar 2009 | 1