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Infineon and GlobalFoundries have agreed a supply deal for Infineon’s AURIX TC3x 40nm automotive MCUs, PMICs and connectivity ICs. The additional capacity will help secure Infineon’s business growth from 2024 through 2030.   Infineon and GF have been partnering since 2013 in the development of differentiated automotive, industrial and security semiconductor technology and products. At the centre of this collaboration ...

GlobalFoundries  has been awarded $35 million in federal funding from the U.S. government to accelerate the manufacturing of GaN-on-silicon ICs at its facility in Essex Junction, Vermont. With the funding, awarded by the Department of Defense’s Trusted Access Program Office (TAPO), GloFo plans to purchase additional tools to expand development and prototyping capabilities, moving closer to at-scale 200mm GaN-on-silicon semiconductor ...

A binaural hearing aid system-on-chip prototype has been created by a consortium that including GlobalFoundries, Cadence, Leibniz University Hannover and Hoerzentrum Oldenburg. SmartHeAP, the smart hearing aid processor, is based on Cadence’ Tensilica G6 DSP and LX7 processor intellectual property, designed on Cadence’ flow and made on GloFo’s 22FDX FD-SoI platform – 22FDX has adaptive body bias to save power, ...

GlobalFoundries, Samsung and TSMC have joined imec’s Sustainable Semiconductor Technologies & Systems (SSTS) research programmr. Launched in 2021, the SSTS program rallies stakeholders from across the semiconductor industry – including systems companies, (equipment) suppliers, and now also three of the world’s leading semiconductor foundries – to help reduce the ecological impact of the IC value chain. In response to mounting ...

Globalfoundries is suing IBM for allegedly sharing GloFo’s IP with Rapidus and Intel. GloFo says  that it collaborated with IBM on process development in Albany for many years and acquired the exclusive right to that technology in 2015 when IBM paid GloFo $1.5 billion to take over the ownership of IBM’s fabs. IBM has been working with both Rapidus and ...

ST and GlobalFoundries are to build a 300mm fab at Crolles. The fab will support a range of technologies, including FDSOI, down to 18nm. There will be  significant financial support from France for the project which is costing $5.7 billion. The fab is targeted to ramp to full capacity by 2026, with up to 620,000 300mm wafer per year production at ...

 GlobalFoundries has set up a dedicated photonics unit called GF Fotonix. GloFo is collaborating with Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Marvell, NVIDIA and photonics specialists Ayar Labs, Lightmatter, PsiQuantum, Ranovus and Xanadu, to deliver the advantages of photonics.  GloFo says it has active design wins with major customers, significant market share today and expects its growth in this segment to outpace the market.     GLoFo is partnering with Cisco on ...

BMW has signed a direct supply agreement with INOVA Semiconductors and GlobalFoundries. The agreement guarantees the BMW Group the supply of several million ICs a year. The deal follows a similar agreement struck last month between GloFo and Ford. BMW’s chips  will be used in the ISELED smart LED technology co-developed by BMW, which will be deployed for the first time ...

Globalfoundries IPO’d on  the Nasdaq yesterday, raising $2.6 billion. Its shares begin trading today under the symbol GFS. GloFo and main shareholder Mubadala sold 55 million shares for $47 each – which was at the top of the offered range. Mubadala will control more than 89% of the company’s shares after the IPO. GloFo had an H1 loss of $301 ...

GlobalFoundries has filed with the US SEC to IPO on the Nasdaq. GloFo is to sell 33 million shares and major shareholder Mubadala is to sell 22 million shares for between $42 and $47 a share in an attempt to raise $2.6 billion. If $47 is achieved that would put a value on GloFo of $25 billion. GloFo has debt ...