Globalfoundries

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Globalfoundries Inc.

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legal form Incorporated
founding March 2, 2009
Seat Santa Clara , California ,United StatesUnited States
management Thomas Caulfield ( Chief Executive Officer )
Number of employees 18,000 (2015)
Branch microelectronics
Website www.globalfoundries.com

Globalfoundries chip factory (Fab 1) in Dresden

The GlobalFoundries Inc. is an American semiconductor manufacturer , the only contract manufacturing runs, a so-called foundry . The company was in March 2009 as a spin-off of the semiconductor manufacturing of AMD founded. The sole shareholder is the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) of the Emirates of Abu Dhabi .

The company operates Fab 's - one in the semiconductor industry abbreviation commonly used for fabrication plant ( English for "manufacturing plant") - on three continents in Dresden , Singapore and Malta , Saratoga County ( New York ). After Globalfoundries initially manufactured exclusively for AMD, in 2013 more than 150 different customers were supplied.

history

In October 2008, AMD and ATIC announced the creation of this new semiconductor manufacturing company. The newly founded company Globalfoundries took over the AMD production facilities in Dresden : Fab 38 (formerly Fab 30) of AMD Saxony and Fab 36. Both production facilities were combined in one legal entity and have since formed Fab1 of Globalfoundries. On July 24th, 2009, only 9 months later, the groundbreaking ceremony for a new manufacturing facility on the Luther Forest Technology Campus in Malta , Saratoga County ( New York ) followed.

In November 2009, Globalfoundries announced the resignation of Héctor Ruiz , submitted in September, as well as his leave of absence as chairman. Ruiz is accused of being involved in an insider business affair (" Galleon Scandal ").

On January 19, 2010, Globalfoundries and Toppan Photomasks announced the establishment of a joint venture to continue operating the Advanced Mask Technology Center (AMTC) in Dresden, which was founded in 2002 . The mask house will supply Globalfoundries and other Toppan European customers. The AMTC was originally a joint venture between AMD , Qimonda and Toppan Photomasks and started operations in 2003.

Just days earlier, on January 13, 2010, Globalfoundries announced the incorporation of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing into the company. With the incorporation of the 6 Singapore Fabs (2, 3, 3e, 5, 6 and 7), the name of the chip factory still under construction in Malta changed, which from now on is no longer known as Fab 2 (formerly Fab 4x ), but Fab 8 is run. This was followed by further investments in 2010 and 2011. The manufacturing capacities for products in 45-nm, 40-nm and 28-nm technology at the Dresden location were increased by the expansion or construction of a third clean room building with an area of ​​around 10,000 m 2 to 80,000 wafer starts (both standard silicon and Silicon-on-Insulator -Wafer) expanded per month. At the same time, an increase in the clean room area in Fab 8 by 8000 m 2 was announced, increasing the total capacity of the manufacturing facility, which has been producing since 2012, to 60,000 wafer starts per month.

On July 13, 2011, the European Commission approved German investment aid for Globalfoundries. With the regional aid package of EUR 219 million, the largest semiconductor factory in Europe will be built by 2013, according to the company. According to the EU Commission, the basis of the funding is that Dresden is eligible for regional aid under Article 107 (3) (a) of the TFEU, as the standard of living in the area is exceptionally low and there is considerable underemployment.

In March 2012, AMD withdrew as a shareholder completely, since then all shares have been with ATIC.

In December 2013, Globalfoundries announced that it would cut 185 jobs at the Dresden site, mainly in research and development. At the same time, 130 new jobs are to be created in production. This should increase productivity and profitability.

In 2014 it was announced that Globalfoundries would take over semiconductor manufacturing from IBM with the fabs in East Fishkill and Essex Junction . The takeover was completed on July 1, 2015 after the relevant antitrust authorities had given their approval.

In October 2015, Globalfoundries announced that it would cut 700 to 800 of a total of 3700 jobs at the Dresden location and no longer employ the 350 temporary workers. In 2016 the plant had 3,500 employees.

As it became clear during the development of a proprietary 14 nm FinFET process (14-XM, in Fab 8) that it would not be competitive, it was dropped. Instead, the processes 14LPE and 14LPP were licensed by Samsung and used, among other things, for the production of AMD processors. Despite this setback, the company planned to continue to be on par with technology leaders like Intel and TSMC. In 2016, the company announced that it would skip the 10 nm stage and concentrate on the development of a 7 nm FinFET (Fab 8, 2018) and a 12 nm FDSOI process (Fab 1, 2019). However, these could not (so far) be brought to market maturity and two years later, in August 2018, Globalfoundries announced that it would (for the time being) stop its development and production plans for the 7 nm FinFET technology. The decision was based, among other things, on the realignment of the company under Tom Caufield (CEO since spring 2018) to focus on existing semiconductor technologies and their expansion for “More than Moore”, i.e. special components such as medium-voltage transistors or non-volatile memory. The withdrawal was also justified by the high costs of developing the technology and the low profit expectations as a technological successor in a limited and expensive market. With the announcement of the 7-nm-Aus, the customer AMD, which is especially important for the Fab 8, announced a change in its production plans for the next generations of its processors. With the successful introduction of the 7 nm CLN7FF technology, these were henceforth manufactured by the competitor TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Corporation), with whom there was already a business relationship for the manufacture of the graphics processors.

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In 2017 it became known that the company plans to build a new plant there as part of a partnership with the Chinese city of Chengdu . Furthermore, the existing fabs in the USA, Singapore and Germany are to be expanded. By 2020, the capacity in Dresden is to grow by 40 percent to around one million wafers per year.

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Works

Works
designation Location Capacity per month
when fully expanded 		technologies used
Fab 1 Dresden
( 51 ° 7 ′ 30.5 ″  N , 13 ° 42 ′ 54 ″  E )		 300 mm wafers: 080,000
200 mm equiv i: 180,000		 55 nm, 45 nm, 40 nm, 32 nm, 28 nm, 22 nm,
SOI , Si-Bulk, high-k
Fab 2 Singapore
1 ° 26 ′ 5.8 ″  N , 103 ° 46 ′ 3.3 ″  E 		200mm wafer: 050,000 600 nm to 350 nm
Fab 3/5 Singapore
1 ° 26 ′ 8.7 ″  N , 103 ° 45 ′ 55.1 ″  E 		200mm wafer: 054,000 350 nm to 180 nm
Fab 3E Singapore (Fab 3E only:
1 ° 22 ′ 15 ″  N , 103 ° 55 ′ 43.7 ″  E )		 200mm wafers: 034,000 180 nm
Fab 6 Singapore
1 ° 26 ′ 14.4 "  N , 103 ° 45 ′ 58"  E 		200mm wafers: 045,000 180 nm to 110 nm
Fab 7 Singapore
1 ° 26 ′ 14.4 "  N , 103 ° 46 ′ 2.2"  E 		300 mm wafer: 050,000
200 mm equiv i: 112,500		 130 nm to 40 nm
Fab 8 Malta (USA), Saratoga County
( 42 ° 58 ′ 7.7 ″  N , 73 ° 45 ′ 22.1 ″  W )		 300mm wafers: 060,000
200mm equiv i: 135,000		 28 nm, 20 nm, 14 nm
Fab 9 Burlington (USA), Vermont
( 44 ° 28 ′ 46.1 ″  N , 73 ° 5 ′ 55.6 ″  W ) 		200mm wafer: 040,000 350 nm to 90 nm
Fab 10 East Fishkill (USA), New York
( 41 ° 32 ′ 34.1 ″  N , 73 ° 49 ′ 24.3 ″  W ) 		300mm wafer: 014,000
200mm equiv i: 031,500		 90 nm to 22 nm
Fab 11 Chengdu (China), Sichuan under construction k. A.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leadership Team. Globalfoundries website, accessed May 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Fast Facts. Globalfoundries website, accessed August 29, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Christof Windeck: AMD founds The Foundry Company and builds Fab 4X. Heise online, October 7, 2008, accessed March 4, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Volker Briegleb: AMD Dresden becomes Globalfoundries. Heise online, March 4, 2009, accessed March 4, 2009 .
  5. ↑ www.lutherforest.org
  6. ↑ Globalfoundries breaks ground on world's most advanced semiconductor foundry - Malta, NY, July 24, 2009
  7. ↑ Globalfoundries press release: Ruiz to Step Down as GLOBALFOUNDRIES Chairman. Globalfoundries, November 2, 2009, accessed September 11, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Christof Windeck: Globalfoundries Chairman and Ex-AMD boss Ruiz resigns . Heise online, November 2, 2009, January 15, 2010.
  9. ↑ Toppan Photomasks and GLOBALFOUNDRIES form a joint venture for the Advanced Mask Technology Center (AMTC) in Dresden. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 57 kB) Press release from January 19, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.amtc-dresden.de
  10. ↑ Christof Windeck: AMD manufacturing divisions Globalfoundries and Chartered merge . Heise online, January 13, 2010, January 15, 2010.
  11. ↑ GLOBALFOUNDRIES Expands Worldwide Manufacturing Capacity. Globalfoundries, June 1, 2010, accessed January 25, 2010 .
  12. ↑ Andreas Wilkens: More than 300 vacancies at chip manufacturers in Dresden . Heise online, July 14, 2011.
  13. ^ State aid: Resolutions on regional investment aid for BMW, Volkswagen, Globalfoundries and CRS Reprocessing in Germany and AU Optronics in Slovakia . European Commission, July 13, 2011 (press release).
  14. ↑ GLOBALFOUNDRIES Marks Third Anniversary by Achieving Full Independence. Globalfoundries, March 4, 2012, accessed August 29, 2013 .
  15. ↑ Globalfoundries Dresden cuts 185 positions
  16. ↑ Globalfoundries takes over: IBM sells chip division at a high loss , Golem.de on October 20, 2014.
  17. ↑ globalfoundries.com: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Completes Acquisition of IBM Microelectronics Business
  18. ↑ Georg Moeritz: Globalfoundries cuts 800 positions. In: sächsische.de. October 3, 2015, accessed November 23, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Urs Mansmann: Globalfoundries employees demonstrate against downsizing. In: heise online. January 24, 2016, accessed January 24, 2016 .
  20. ↑ Joel Hruska: GlobalFoundries announces new 7nm FinFET process, full node shrink. ExtremeTech, accessed September 16, 2016 .
  21. ↑ GlobalFoundries Stops All 7nm Development. In: AnandTech. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
  22. ↑ heise online: Topics: Globalfoundries. February 10, 2017, accessed February 13, 2017 .
  23. ↑ heise online: Globalfoundries expands chip production capacity, also in Dresden. February 10, 2017, accessed February 13, 2017 .
  24. ↑ globalfoundries.com: Globalfoundries' Worldwide Footprint
  25. ↑ Executive Perspective: A Strategy for Growth in China. In: GLOBALFOUNDRIES. October 23, 2017. Retrieved October 24, 2017 .

Coordinates: 37 ° 24 ′ 55.1 ″  N , 121 ° 58 ′ 28 ″  W.