GlobalFoundries is a semiconductor foundry that manufactures chips for customers worldwide, focused on differentiated process platforms including FD-SOI, silicon photonics and automotive-grade technology.
GlobalFoundries is one of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers, operating as a foundry partner that produces chips designed by other companies. Founded in 2009 from a partnership between AMD and the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), the firm employs approximately 13,000 people across 14 locations worldwide and serves more than 200 customers in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Rather than competing at the leading edge of every technology node, GlobalFoundries concentrates on differentiated, feature-rich process platforms. Its technology portfolio includes FDX FD-SOI, a fully depleted silicon-on-insulator process intended to speed customers' products to market; Silicon Photonics; RF SOI for wireless and RF applications; and automotive-grade process technology designed for high-reliability uses such as safer vehicles. Its customers span automotive, smart mobile devices, the Internet of Things, communications infrastructure, and aerospace and defence.
The company describes its role as a partner delivering process technology rather than simply manufacturing capacity, with a stated vision of becoming the world's first truly global semiconductor foundry. Work at GlobalFoundries typically sits within semiconductor manufacturing and process engineering, covering its differentiated platform technologies and the operations of a global fabrication footprint.
