Over the past decade, the IC industry has been paring down its older capacity as manufacturers have consolidated or transitioned to the fab-lite or fabless business models. In its recently released Global Wafer Capacity 2020-2024 report, IC Insights shows that due to the surge of merger and acquisition activity in the middle
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The success and proliferation of integrated circuits has largely hinged on the ability of IC manufacturers to continue offering more performance and functionality for the money. Driving down the cost of ICs (on a per-function or per-performance basis) is inescapably tied to a growing arsenal of technologies and wafer-fab manufacturing
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES, abbreviated as GF, is a semiconductor foundry based in Santa Clara, California in the United States. GLOBALFOUNDRIES, is responsible for the mass manufacturing of integrated circuits for popular and successful semiconductor companies including but not limited to the likes of Qualcomm, NXP and STMicroelectronics.
The Formation Of GLOBALFOUNDRIES
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January 21, 2020: CMC Microsystems has signed an agreement with GLOBALFOUNDRIES® (GF®), the world’s leading specialty foundry, that will provide access to GF’s advanced and specialized FinFET, RF SOI, FDX, SiGe, and Silicon Photonics platforms for CMC researchers at more than 60 Canadian universities and colleges, in addition to
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Hsinchu, Taiwan R.O.C. and Santa Clara, CA, Oct. 29, 2019 – TSMC and GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) today announced they are dismissing all litigation between them as well as those that involve any of their customers. The companies have agreed to a broad life-of-patents cross-license to each other’s worldwide existing semiconductor patents as
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Leading-edge processes (<28nm) took over as the largest portion in terms of monthly installed capacity available in 2015. By the end of 2019, <28nm capacity is forecast to represent about 49% of the IC industry’s total capacity, based on information in IC Insights’ Global Wafer Capacity 2019-2023 report. At the very leading
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