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The smaller a manufacturing processing node is, the better the hardware that can be made, which is why Globalfoundries has decided to speed up development and adoption of the 20nm low power process and the 14nm-XM FinFET process.
Analog/mixed signal (AMS) design at advanced processes has unique requirements, which ... |
31 May 2013
13:31 GMT |
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Globalfoundries is relatively young, compared to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Samsung's foundries, but it is doing its best to come into its own, as shown by its latest deal.
The foundry has made a deal with Infineon Technologies for the development and production of embedded Flash products b... |
29 April 2013
09:42 GMT |
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Since semiconductors are nearing the limit of what they can accomplish by sticking to a single plane, foundries have been doing their best to come up with new ways of building them, even if it means going 3D.
Tri-gate transistors were the first thing that happened, then the idea arose for three-dimensional memory c... |
3 April 2013
09:22 GMT |
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Information about Globalfoundries' chip manufacturing plans has made its way to the net, some of which pertains to happenings expected several years down the line.
We've already reported on the 14nm and 10nm plans, and how those processes will have both “pure” and hybrid variants.
Now we can... |
12 February 2013
12:41 GMT |
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More advanced manufacturing processes always mean higher performance in case of CPUs/ICs, and higher capacity for storage chips. Also, they bring improved energy efficiency to both.
Globalfoundries, whose status as an international foundry has been rising, has promised that it will have 10nm chips out by 2015.
Cons... |
12 February 2013
08:20 GMT |
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AMD has basically created GlobalFoundries, so while the latter does accept orders from various firms, its activities can still be taken as a sign of what AMD might be brewing in its labs.
That is why the newest announcement on its part could be taken as a hint that, like rumors started saying back in October 2012, ... |
6 February 2013
04:39 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices may rely on TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) when it comes to its graphics processing units, but the rest of its chips are made by Globalfoundries. As it happens, the wafer supply agreement (WAS) with the latter fabrication expert has been modified in a way that gives AMD an ... |
7 December 2012
03:35 GMT |
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Globalfdoundries and IBM both have chip manufacturing businesses that can exist just fine on their own, not counting the clients they make chips for, but that doesn't mean they can't go for outside help.
As it happens, both foundry companies feel that they could get faster at advancing manufacturing proce... |
2 October 2012
09:54 GMT |
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Chinese fabless CPU designer is preparing a new dual-core CortexA9 processor for Android tablets and the chip is apparently going to be quite an impressive design. The manufacturing will be handled by GlobalFoundries’ 28nm production lines. We just reported here that GlobalFoundries is viewed by its customers ... |
2 October 2012
08:31 GMT |
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The ever declining tablet prices are making life in this sector very hard for various technology companies. Rockchip is populating over 80% of the tablets manufactured in China, but the unit price is going down on a steep slope so measures had to be taken.Rockchip manufactures ARM SoCs that are targeting tablets and ... |
30 September 2012
07:27 GMT |
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We reported here that Intel’s 14nm Broadwell processor has already taped out at the company and is able to run Windows, but we were wondering if the rest of the semiconductor manufacturers are left behind at 28nm. Abu Dhabi company ATIC and its GlobalFoundries subsidiary don’t seem to be content with 28n... |
20 September 2012
20:31 GMT |
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We all know that Intel has the world’s largest semiconductor FABs and that the company actually is the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer and designer, but it seems that the giant also wants a piece of the foundry business.Intel is reportedly getting ready to open its FABs for some select customer... |
17 September 2012
20:11 GMT |
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As the legal clashes between the two companies are getting tougher and come about significantly more often than it happened before, Apple and Samsung are apparently becoming bitter enemies that won’t collaborate on virtually anything.
For those that might not know, Samsung is the maker of most of components in... |
7 September 2012
19:01 GMT |
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The 28nm manufacturing technology is now officially online and is making very advanced microprocessors that show amazing characteristics and performance. Many were wondering if GlobalFoundries’ 28nm manufacturing capacities were actually making something other than test chips, and the answer we got today is ver... |
5 September 2012
06:21 GMT |
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There is a new man working for Globalfoundries and reporting to Mike Noonen, the semiconductor manufacturing company's executive vice president of worldwide marketing and sales.
Bruce Kleinman will be tasked with leading the product marketing division, which implies working with global customers and helping to... |
27 August 2012
09:53 GMT |
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ARM seems dead set on catching up with Intel and even surpass the technological manufacturing advantage that the world’s largest semiconductor company currently has. Most of Intel’s fastest processors available today are built on the company’s advanced 22nm FinFET manufacturing tech.
ARM’s mo... |
13 August 2012
10:01 GMT |
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Although GlobalFoundries’ New York FAB 8 is just starting risk production with volume manufacturing slated for early 2013, the semiconductor company has already started the construction of new production facilities to increase capacity by 30%. The current facilities and equipment at FAB 8 are capable of proces... |
25 July 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Aiming to place the last of the rumors to rest, AMD has gone on record and has clearly stated that the company doesn't intend to enlist the services of a third foundry.
At present, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Globalfoundries make chips for the Sunnyvale, California-based company.
Even so, ... |
21 July 2012
04:03 GMT |
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During the past decade, the costs of building a new and high-end semiconductor factory have risen quite a bit. From two or three billion dollars back in the days of AMD’s Dresden FAB, the costs are now over ten billion for a 450 mm wafer FAB. IBM has historically pulled back from any kind of business that mani... |
15 July 2012
22:41 GMT |
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Back in late spring of this year we were debating on the likelihood that Qualcomm might contract GlobalFoundries to manufacture 28nm chips for them. TSMC was not able to meet the demand at the time and was also clearly not able to comply with future demand increase for Qualcomm’s powerful ARM chips.Although Qua... |
15 July 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Many of the big contract manufacturers like TSMC and UMC started charging their fabless customers “by wafer” instead of charging them “per working chip.” This has increased the costs for the fabless companies like AMD and Nvidia, but has assured the FAB owners that they won’t operate at ... |
10 July 2012
04:01 GMT |
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28nm chip supply is not at the level where everyone in need of them can get enough, so Globalfoundries figured there is enough room for it among the foundries who manufacture such units. Back in June, we reported on Globalfoundries intention to become the world's top foundry, despite its relative youth. This... |
7 July 2012
03:48 GMT |
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Globalfoundries is a relative newcomer on the semiconductor manufacturing industry, but that doesn't seem to be affecting the company's goals and hopes.
The foundry should be currently showing prospective contractors its 28nm manufacturing process. If it isn't doing that yet, it will probably get aro... |
9 June 2012
06:48 GMT |
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Ex AMD-owned foundry, along with its partners, is going to demonstrate an enhanced silicon-validated design flow for its 28nm Super Low Power (SLP) manufacturing process, using the Gate First High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) approach. Remember when we told you that GlobalFoundries is going to produce volume 28nm chips ... |
1 June 2012
03:01 GMT |
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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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