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Microsoft’s Windows 8 launches in October and, like we mentioned before, AMD will be ready with Hondo CPUs. Considering that Hondo CPUs are still made in 40 nm manufacturing technology at TSMC, the company is reportedly preparing a 32 nm version to better counter Intel’s Clover Trail on power consumption.... |
22 May 2012
07:31 GMT |
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The Bilderberg appointed Barrack Obama is reportedly going to visit GlobalFoundries’ newest factory in Albany, New York. He’s said to applaud the great Abu Dhabi investment in USA’s industry. Since he wasn’t able to get America back on track as many have expected, President Obama is rightfully... |
8 May 2012
04:18 GMT |
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As we said before, SOI is a very resourceful concept and can show amazing improvements in the right conditions. Every foundry needs a SHP (Super High Performance) manufacturing line and GlobalFoundries wants this line to be based on SOI. Compared to the bulk process, enhancing your producing line with SOI technology... |
3 May 2012
04:58 GMT |
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Globalfoundries has just announced that it began installation of special production tools to create 3D-based TSV devices processed on its 20nm technology platform, at its new Fab 8 campus in Saratoga County, N.Y. We’ve already reported that ATIC, the owner of GlobalFoundries, is heavily investing in 3D chip st... |
26 April 2012
12:11 GMT |
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TSMC’s main competitor, the Taiwanese compatriot company United Microelectronics Corporation, is progressing smoothly with the roll-out of the 28 nm technology. This may not be such good news for TSMC, as they’ve already lost consistent orders due to capacity constraints we've already reported about... |
26 April 2012
09:25 GMT |
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TSMC has long been a good FAB partner for Nvidia and ATi’s GPUs. But, right now, Qualcomm is reportedly moving a considerable amount of its production over to GlobalFoundries. The diversity of designs the Taiwanese FAB leader was able to manufacture was so great that even AMD asked them to manufacture APUs for... |
24 April 2012
03:25 GMT |
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The Abu Dhabi investment group that bought the CPU FABs from AMD some time ago and renamed them Globalfoundries, is now investing $4,8 million (3,6 mil. Eur), along with Germany’s State of Saxony into semiconductor research. The theme of the two-year research is a three-dimensional chip packaging, but it will ... |
18 April 2012
08:36 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices may actually be on a positive track according to how financial analysts have interpreted the company's latest acquisitions and/or sales. You might have read about what Advanced Micro Devices has done in regards to Globalfoundries and server maker SeaMicro lately. If you've yet to ... |
8 March 2012
03:47 GMT |
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In addition to formally launching the Pitcairn Radeon HD 7800 graphics adapters (7850 and 7870), Advanced Micro Devices made a second announcement yesterday (March 04, 2012). Globalfoundries has had some trouble when it comes to making chips for AMD, particularly those on the 32nm and 28nm manufacturing process tec... |
5 March 2012
04:31 GMT |
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Globalfoundries has announced the appointment of Magnus Matthiasson as Chief Procurement Officer (CPO). He will be tasked with leading the global purchasing activities and will work from the offices in Silicon Valley. Essentially, he will need to weigh Globalfoundries' prospective investments and the relations... |
28 February 2012
11:14 GMT |
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During the 2012 Common Platform technology forum, scheduled to take place in Santa Clara, California, in mid-March, IBM, Globalfoundries and Samsung Electronics plan to preview their next-generation chip fabrication technologies.
The presentations held by representatives of these companies, who together form the Com... |
10 February 2012
16:01 GMT |
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There was a report, a few days ago, saying that IBM was making processors for Advanced Micro Devices, but the Sunnyvale, California-based chip company has now denied the rumor. Though there is indeed a sort of collaboration with AMD, IBM has not made any chips for it and is not about to start doing so either. Ins... |
8 February 2012
02:38 GMT |
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AMD disclosed during a recent analyst event that the chip maker has started manufacturing processors in IBM’s foundries in a possible attempt to try to boost production of its upcoming A-Series Trinity APUs. “We win together, we have partnership in good times and in difficult times. What we are seeing ... |
6 February 2012
03:15 GMT |
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Being one of the main two chip manufacturers in the world, Globalfoundries has to constantly step up its game and, sure enough, it is looking quite a bit ahead in terms of manufacturing process technologies.
Whether through a coincidence or not, companies have begun talking about their semiconductor manufacturing t... |
30 January 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Globalfoundries has reorganized its global sales and marketing division, as well as the customer engineering and quality functions, so it needed someone to lead the new section.
Full-service semiconductor foundry Globalfoundries has just issued a press release in which it announces that Michael Noonen has joined th... |
16 January 2012
08:10 GMT |
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Ever since AMD has released its first A-Series APUs based on the Llano architecture, the chip maker has been facing production shortages that affected the market availability of these processors, but an analyst believes that these troubles are now over for AMD.What makes the analyst believe that the shortage may be o... |
21 December 2011
19:31 GMT |
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GlobalFoundries is working hard on improving its role in the mobile space and has just announced that it has reached an important milestone for the company since it taped out a SoCs based on ARM’s Cortex-A9 core built using the 20nm process technology.The device taped out by the foundry is actually a Technology... |
15 December 2011
08:11 GMT |
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GlobalFoundries has today announced that the company has reached an important milestone as it managed to develop a 28nm dual-core Cortex A9 test chip that is built using the company’s 28nm HPP (High Performance Plus) process.The test chip demoed by the foundry is running at 2.5GHz based on the wafers produced a... |
15 December 2011
03:12 GMT |
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Globalfoundries announced recently that it had appointed Daniel Durn to the position of Chief Financial Officer for the company while also assigning two other senior executives to key positions.Durn has replaced Robert Krakauer as CFO since Krakauer is reported to be leaving Globalfoundries in order to pursue other i... |
30 November 2011
13:31 GMT |
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ATIC, the main owner of Globalfoundries, announced recently its plans to delay the construction of its new Fab in Abu Dhabi as the company believes this decision can’t be justified in the current global economic conditions."We will not be engaging in any ground breaking in Abu Dhabi in 2012,” said Ibrahim... |
25 November 2011
09:49 GMT |
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Despite how many times TSMC and Globalfoundries come forward to assure everyone that they don't expect problems with the 28nm technology, rumors and reports are emerging about it anyway. In fact, the latest such report says that yield issues and defect densities are already being run into. This doesn't ... |
5 November 2011
17:31 GMT |
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Globalfoundries has recently issued a press release to inform us that Ajit Manocha, who has served as interim CEO of the foundry since June, has now been appointed to the job on a permanent basis starting immediately. Ajit Manocha is a veteran semiconductor industry executive with more than 30 years of global experti... |
1 November 2011
06:17 GMT |
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All the manufacturing issues that have affected Globalfoundries' 32 nm HKMG chip fabrication process seem to have made AMD to reconsider its feature strategy since the company is now rumored to be considering TSMC for the manufacturing of its upcoming Bulldozer processors.This information comes from the Turkish ... |
14 October 2011
16:11 GMT |
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AMD seems to have troubles with the availability of its A-Series APUs based on the Llano architecture as some of these 32nm chips are hard to find in stock at most online or brick and mortar retailers leading us to believe that Globalfoundries' 32nm fabrication issues are to blame.The chips that are hardest to c... |
13 October 2011
16:31 GMT |
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The chip industry has been talking about the move to 450mm production wafers for a couple of years now, and it seems like this transition is finally set to happen as analysts believe this move seems now inevitable.According to a report by the Future Horizons market research firm cited by Xbit Labs, the transition is ... |
6 October 2011
06:03 GMT |
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Chip startup Adapteva has just announced that it has taped out a 64-core processor based on the Epiphany multi-core architecture originally introduced in May of this year, which is capable of delivering a maximum of 100 Gigaflops of performance while using under 2 watts of power. With THIS new chip, Adapteva targets ... |
5 October 2011
15:31 GMT |
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AMD recently issued a press release to inform its partners and members of the public that the company has lowered its revenue forecast for the third quarter of this year. The chip maker blamed poor yields of AMD Llano APUs as well as the delayed shipments of CPUs based on the Bulldozer architecture.
“The les... |
29 September 2011
02:30 GMT |
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Even though GlobalFoundries has shouted out time and time again that its 32nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) fabrication process doesn't face any sort of problems, an AMD official recently refuted these claims as it stated that GloFo's advanced fabrication node isn't actually where it would need to be in t... |
24 September 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Chips have advanced quite quickly in terms of manufacturing node size, and Globalfoundries has announced that it already taped out 20nm test units, aided by leading EDA vendors.Globalfoundries is one of the two major chip manufacturing corporations of the world, the other being TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturi... |
30 August 2011
09:05 GMT |
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Announced at the beginning of May, Intel's 3D Tri-Gate technology has offered the Santa Clara chip giant a huge advantage in transistor manufacturing, but GlobalFoundries isn't willing to let this slide and is currently working on developing its own 3D chip fabrication process.
This information was provi... |
18 July 2011
03:31 GMT |
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Globalfoundries has just announced that its newly constructed cleanrooms in New York and Dresden are ready for the installation of 300mm semiconductor wafer fabrication equipment, a status that marks the transition from the construction phase to the operations phase.
At Fab 1 in Dresden, Germany, the foundry has c... |
12 July 2011
10:14 GMT |
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During a presentation that was held for members of the press last week in Dresden, GlobalFoundries has announced that it has already started the production of the first 300mm test wafers using the 28nm process technology.
These wafers are currently made up of simple circuits, like test patterns and SRAM macros, an... |
6 July 2011
10:03 GMT |
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Globalfoundries recently announced that together with its majority shareholder, the Abu Dhabi controlled Advanced Technology Investment Co. (ATIC), has appointed Ajit Manocha as interim CEO of the company to replace Doug Grose, who will become a senior advisor.Grose will be soon joined by Chia Song Hwee, chief operat... |
17 June 2011
05:37 GMT |
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GlobalFoundries has just announced that it has entered a partnership with the European research institute IMEC that gives the foundry access to a wide assortment of studies focused on the development of sub-22nm CMOS scaling and GaN-on-Si manufacturing technology.
IMEC's sub-22nm core CMOS program aims at dev... |
4 April 2011
10:09 GMT |
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AMD has just announced that it modified its wafer purchase agreement with GlobalFoundries in order to revise the pricing methodology applicable to wafers delivered in 2011 for AMD's microprocessor and accelerated processing unit (APU) products.Under the new deal, AMD will switch from the traditional method of pa... |
4 April 2011
04:39 GMT |
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As far as finances go, 2011 appears to be a year of optimism, since so very many companies hope for high revenues, and even though the disaster in Japan will likely leave some companies with a lot on their plate, Globalfoundries is one of those that still aims high.It looks like the IT market is still in its state o... |
22 March 2011
09:17 GMT |
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Just a month after the European Commission decided to investigate the benefits of establishing a 450mm semiconductor prototype foundry in the EU, leading chip makers in the region have started to express their concern regarding Europe's role in this market and its contribution to 450mm wafer technology research ... |
7 March 2011
10:24 GMT |
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The European Commission has just awarded a one-year joint contract to a pair of consultancy firms with expertise in the semiconductor industry to investigate the benefits of establishing a 450-mm semiconductor prototype foundry in Europe.
The executive body is interested to find out if this measure could allow Eur... |
1 February 2011
06:35 GMT |
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Yesterday, Common Platform members announced that the coalition will move to gate-last technology when it makes the transition to the 20nm manufacturing node, plans for 32nm and 28nm chip fabrication remaining unchanged at this time.
The Common Platform Initiative is made out of IBM, GlobalFoundries, and Samsung E... |
20 January 2011
08:16 GMT |
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TSMC seems to be making great progress with its 28nm manufacturing technology, as NetLogic Microsystems has just announced that it developed and taped out its next-generation silicon built using the new fabrication node, leading the way for the likes of AMD and Nvidia to start developing 28nm graphics cores.
NetLo... |
18 January 2011
04:14 GMT |
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Globalfoundries has just introduced its new 28nm digital design flows which will help companies, developing SoCs based on this process, get them ready for manufacturing a lot quicker, effectively reducing their time to market.
According to the company, traditional foundry design flows have not taken into account t... |
14 January 2011
05:14 GMT |
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With the 32nm manufacturing process on track, Globalfoundries has its heart now set on increasing its manufacturing capacities, recent reports suggesting that the company plans to spend no less than $5.4 billion on expanding and building a new plant in the state of New York.
According to Xbit Labs, the capital spe... |
13 January 2011
03:42 GMT |
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Globalfoundries is forced yet again to dismiss allegations regarding delays encountered with their 32nm SOI manufacturing process after a financial analyst started spreading such rumors following Dirk Meyer's resignation as company's CEO.It seems like Globalfoundries can't get a break from this sort of... |
12 January 2011
05:12 GMT |
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It appears that the web has finally learned just who will make AMD's upcoming accelerated processing unit, the latest rumors pointing in the direction of Globalfoundries as maker of the Krishna and Wichita.As some may or may not remember, Advanced Micro Devices never really intended to make processors based on ... |
22 November 2010
05:10 GMT |
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Since the rumor mill decided at one point or another to spawn reports that NVIDIA would be contracting Globalfoundries to manufacture its Tegra products, the GPU maker's CEO saw fit to dismiss those claims by saying that NVIDIA plans to maintain its strong partnership with TSMC.As consumers know, the Tegra SoC ... |
6 October 2010
09:26 GMT |
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With Globalfoundries on an acquisition spree, analysts have been keeping an eye out to determine which semiconductor fabs have a higher chance of falling under its watchful gaze. Said fabs would need to already possess sufficiently advanced technologies and to belong to certain companies whose business needs are no l... |
7 May 2010
06:27 GMT |
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Not long ago, Globalfoundries announced that, like TSMC, it was going to skip the 32nm bulk process, for business reasons. After that, TSMC stated that it was also skipping the 22nm process, in order to focus only on the 20nm technology. Globalfoundries, however, will not do so, believing that both full-node and half... |
26 April 2010
06:18 GMT |
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With all the problems that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has been having, both Advanced Micro Devices and NVIDIA saw for themselves how having just one supplier of graphics chips can backfire. AMD, however, may be able to permanently resolve this issue faster than its rival, because it has a special ace... |
21 April 2010
06:30 GMT |
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In a move similar to the one made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Globalfoundries has reportedly announced that it has decided to give up on the 32nm bulk manufacturing process technology with HKMG (high-k metal gate) and, instead, move directly to the 28nm.The main reason given was supposedly weak dem... |
2 April 2010
05:52 GMT |
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With the rapid evolution in processing, and the mobile front being no exception, next-generation mobile products keep raising the standard for computing power, connectivity and battery life. To address these growing needs, ARM and GLOBALFOUNDRIES are working together on the creation of a top-tier System-on-Chip (SoC)... |
16 February 2010
08:28 GMT |
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