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GlobalFoundries receives funding for essential chip manufacturing
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GlobalFoundries (GF) has announced that it is to receive $1.5bn in direct funding as part of the US CHIPS and Science Act enabling it to expand and create new manufacturing capacity and capabilities.
www.newelectronics.co.uk/, Feb. 19, 2024 –
According to the company this investment will be used to securely produce more essential chips for automotive, IoT, aerospace, defence, and other vital markets.
GF is the only US-based pure play foundry with a global manufacturing footprint including facilities in the US, Europe, and Singapore and is the first pure play foundry to receive a major award (over $1.5 billion) from the CHIPS and Science Act, designed to strengthen American semiconductor manufacturing, supply chains and national security.
The proposed funding will support three GF projects:
- Expansion of GF's existing Malta, NY, fab by adding critical technologies already in production in GF's Singapore and Germany facilities geared towards supporting the US auto industry. With the number of semiconductor chips in each car or truck increasing, this expansion is key to ensuring supply chain resilience for the growing demand and to delivering for GF's automotive customers including General Motors. This will continue to diversify GF's flagship Malta fab into new technologies and end markets.
- Construction of a new state-of-art fab on the Malta campus to meet expected customer demand for US-made essential chips across a broad range of markets and applications including automotive, aerospace, defence and AI. The new fab, which has already been granted some necessary permitting, will leverage the site's existing infrastructure and ecosystem, enabling a fast and efficient path from construction to production. The semiconductor market is expected to double over the next decade, and GF's new fab will be positioned to capture the feature-rich mature, essential chip segment which is expected to continue to represent more than 60% of the semiconductor market. Construction of this new fab combined with expansion of GF's existing site is expected to triple the existing capacity of the Malta campus over the next 10+ years. These two projects are expected to increase wafer production to 1 million per year once all phases are complete.
- Modernisation of GF's longest continuously operated fab and the nation's first and largest 200mm facility in Essex Junction, Vermont. The project will upgrade existing facilities, expand capacity as well as create the first U.S. facility capable of high-volume manufacturing of next-generation gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors for use in electric vehicles, power grids, data centers, 5G and 6G smartphones and other critical technologies.
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