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• Chips 18 Jun 09:30

  Rockchip taps Glofo’s 28nm HKMG process

  Peddler of cheap SoCs, Rockchip, is building its next generation chips at Globalfoundries (GloFo)
• Chips 05 Jun 12:37

  ARM will make chips

  RumourAt ARM's press conference on Monday we were struck by how the company was talking about itself. Almost like a manufacturer.
• Science 22 May 09:29

  America faces high tech workforce shortage

  New York state faces a shortfall of thousands of skilled techies to sustain the growth of its tech sector and GlobalFoundries (GloFo) is starting to sound the alarm.
• Business 17 May 08:55

  AMD share price stumbles 14.4 percent

  Niles also pointed out that AMD has switched to TSMC for much of its production, which means Intel doesn’t have much of an edge in manufacturing. GlobalFoundries (GloFo)  is still in the game and AMD is sitting on six years worth of high-volume, low-margin console deals.
• Chips 18 Apr 10:26

  GloFo plans $4.4 billion spending spree

  GlobalFoundries is planning to expand production and increase its spending this year.
• Chips 02 Apr 14:51

  GlobalFoundries stacks up the chips

  Chip foundry GlobalFoundries (GloFo) said it has demonstrated technology at its New York State fab that allow chips to be stacked one, on another.
• Chips 26 Mar 09:02

  Taiwan chip makers respond to Samsung threat

  Competition in the foundry business is fiercer than ever before, with semiconductor giant Intel reportedly touting for business too. Other players in the field include Abu Dhabi firm GlobalFoundries (GloFo), UMC, IBM Microelectronics, and Chinese foundry SMIC.
• Chips 18 Mar 11:03

  ASML teams up with Globalfoundries

  Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML said that one of its subsidiaries will collaborate with Globalfoundries in an effort to accelerate the development of future nodes.
• Chips 24 Jan 09:23

  AMD outlines its cunning plan for profitability

  AnalysisAMD had a rubbish 2012 and things were not exactly going well for it before that. Earlier this week the firm's quarter showed a loss of $473 million, including charges related to restructuring and the reduction of buying obligations from contract chipmaker GlobalFoundries.
• Chips 15 Jan 09:42

  AMD shifts Kabini and Temash to TSMC

  Last year AMD confirmed that it was cancelling chunks of its orders with its old chum GlobalFoundries and was paying the outfit large sums of money for the right to go elsewhere.
• Chips 12 Dec 12:23

  GlobalFoundries urges EU to support chip industry

  The European Union should do more to support the semiconductor manufacturing or risk losing out on innovation, GlobalFoundries has said, although its status as an impartial observer is, perhaps, questionable.
• Chips 07 Dec 10:46

  Mobile chip sales to outpace PCs in 2013

  The forecasts are indicative of the shifting landscape for hardware sales. AMD announced yesterday that it would pay out $320 million to GlobalFoundries in order to reduce chip orders, to realign itself with declining PC sales.
• Chips 07 Dec 07:28

  AMD slashes orders to GlobalFoundries

  AMD has told Globalfoundries to stop making so many of its chips because no one is buying them.
• Chips 04 Dec 11:55

  Samsung about to lose Apple's chip contract

  RumourApple has few choices when it comes to making its SoCs. It needs to make 100 million chips per year and with Samsung out of the picture that only leaves TSMC, GlobalFoundries, and Intel.
• Chips 21 Sep 10:39

  GloFo speeds up move to 14nm process

  GlobalFoundries will be one of the first foundries to offer 14nm processors with customer tape outs in 2013.
• Chips 24 Aug 14:23

  GloFo now second biggest foundry business

  GlobalFoundries has overtaken United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) as the second biggest contract chip maker for the second quarter of 2012, reports IC Insights.
• Chips 14 Aug 16:02

  TSMC to spend $2.4 billion on capacity expansion

  TSMC recently announced its intentions to begin development at the 20nm process with ARM on FinFET server chip designs.  ARM later announced it would be extending its partnership with GlobalFoundries.
• Chips 13 Aug 15:01

  ARM and GlobalFoundries announce 20nm FinFET partnership

  ARM is further pressing ahead in FinFET technology - going into partnership with GlobalFoundries shortly after it announced a collaboration with TSMC to work on 64-bit FinFET servers.

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