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Globalfoundries will lose cash for years
The Abu Dhabi government's investment outfit, Mubadala seems content to underwrite huge loses at GloFo for the foreseeable future. -
Indian government gets interest from chipmakers
Infineon Technologies, ST Microelectronics, Sitronics, GlobalFoundries and a consortium comprising Jaypee Associates, IBM and Israeli firm Tower Jazz have all said they are interested. -
AMD goes back to fabs
AMD spun off its chip making facilities to GlobalFoundries. However the relationship with the outfit soured when GloFo could not get chips out fast enough. -
Semi foundry industry healthy, but threatened by economic meltdown
Of the pure play foundries, the top four were unchanged last year: TSMC leads with $14 billion in revenues, followed by UMC with $3.6 billion in revenues, GlobalFoundries with $3.5 billion in revenues, and SMIC with $1.3 billion in revenues. -
Nvidia thinks Intel should make its chips
But it is a long way before Intel enters the realm dominated by chip foundries such as TSMC and GlobalFoundries. -
GlobalFoundries celebrates shipping a quarter of a million wafers
GlobalFoundries has announced that its Fab 1 in Dresden, Germany has shipped a quarter million wafers based on 32nm high-K metal gate (HKMG) technology over the last year. -
AMD's move out of fabs was a terrible idea
CommentLast week AMD finally got shot of GlobalFoundaries and no longer had any connection with any fabrication plant. Instead, it has the option to shop where ever it liked. -
AMD claims 7800 smashes the competition, Nvidia
CeBit 2012Getting to 28nm has been an achievement for AMD. The company had some problems with fabs at its spin-off chipmaker, GlobalFoundries, to get products to market on time. Groenke denied that GloFo's trouble with moving to lower processes was why it went to TSMC. -
Globalfoundries leaves AMD's nest, completely
In what is being spun, by us, as "independence day", Globalfoundries has acquired the rest of its shares from AMD - on its third anniversary of spinning off. -
GlobalFoundries denies ProMOS fab buy
The report claimed that two contenders were bidding on ProMOS, and recent rumours had pinned GlobalFoundries at buying fabs just about everywhere in the Far East. If we were the paranoid sort, we’d think of this info as a controlled leak from a needy company in Taiwan. -
AMD should move from GloFo to Samsung
RumourWhile the rumours are that AMD is looking to shifting a large chunk of its chip production away from GloFlo to TSMC, it seems that the fabless chip maker might have a better long term back-up plan. -
GloFo, IBM, Samsung to demonstrate future silicon
Three chip giants, GlobalFoundries, Samsung and IBM, are beating their chests about an upcoming March showcase they promise will demonstrate the future of silicon. -
Renesas, Fujitsu and Panasonic to merge chip operations
The big idea is to spin off their system chip design and development divisions, with production to be transferred to GlobalFoundries which wants to set up a company in Japan. -
GlobalFoundries promises 'tremendous momentum' in 2012
GlobalFoundries asserts that the company is not in tatters as some industry watchers have been suggesting, and that 2012 will see it move with "tremendous momentum -
Apple, EMC, AMD post earnings
Financial RoundupThe results came after exceptional items: an impairment charge of $209 million in respect of its investment in GlobalFoundries, a loss of $4 million from discontinued operations, a charge of $3 million for amortisation of intangibles, a loss of $1 million on repurchased debt and a charge of $98 mill -
Intel reshuffles top suits
Eden is moving to the Promised Land of Israel where Intel has a manufacturing plant and is the country's top employer. Intel has heard rumours that rival GlobalFoundries is building a plant in Abu Dhabi, although the last we heard that project was on hold so the prospect of an Arab Israeli chip war -
From NFC to artificial brains: Future Horizons' future of chips
IFS 2012As well as looking at the state of the chip industry, IFS2012 saw Future Horizons give some predictions into the application of semiconductors over the coming years. -
TSMC to rule 28nm coop
The competition, it is said, isn't in a good place either. While Samsung's foundries cater to very high volume demand, you have UMC and SMIC to pick up the leftovers from TSMC. Even GlobalFoundries was all but discarded.
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