SoCing it to ‘em
Four months after the investment group - ATIC - that owns GlobalFoundies announced it was buying Singapore based Chartered Semiconductor, the two companies have officially been merged under the GlobalFoundries name.
The combination of the two companies also serves to vindicate the name, as the company has manufacturing operations in Europe and Asia, and is building a state-of-the-art fab in the US.
"Thanks to the vision of our investors and months of dedicated work by teams across the globe, we have now created a new global company that leads the foundry market in advanced technology with unparalleled proximity to our customers and access to the world's best talent," said Doug Grose, CEO of GLOBALFOUNDRIES.
We met the GlobalFoundries team at a drinks reception they hosted in Vegas during CES recently and they certainly seem to be attracting a fair bit of buzz. As well as the great and the good of the technology media, also in attendance were some top brass from ARM.
And let's not forget, GlobalFoundries announced an agreement with the world's biggest fabless semiconductor company Qualcomm during the event too. The ubiquity of ARM based SoCs at this year's CES would seem to be a validation of GlobalFoundries's strategy of targeting this market.
Here's a slide illustrating GlobalFoundries' global fab presence after the incorporation of Chartered.
