Glofo invests $1.4 billion to raise output
Published in News
Wednesday, 03 March 2021 12:23

Glofo invests $1.4 billion to raise output



Cash spent at three plants


GlobalFoundries will invest $1.4 billion this year to raise output at three factories in the United States, Singapore and Germany.

Intel scoops up GloFlo employees
Published in News
Friday, 20 September 2019 12:25

Intel scoops up GloFlo employees


Maltese cross over

GlobalFoundries laying off more than 400 workers at its Fab 8 computer chip factory in Malta last year may have benefited Intel.

GloFo flogs 300mm fab in New York to ON
Published in PC Hardware
Tuesday, 23 April 2019 12:03

GloFo flogs 300mm fab in New York to ON


If they can make chips there, they can make them anywhere

Globalfoundries and ON Semiconductor have entered into a definitive agreement for ON Semi to acquire a 300mm fab located in East Fishkill, New York.

AMD CTO discusses 7nm EPYC and Vega 7nm
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 29 August 2018 11:22

AMD CTO discusses 7nm EPYC and Vega 7nm


Both TSMC don’t worry about GloFo

The news that GlobalFoundries is walking away from 7nm manufacturing brought a lot of uncertainty to AMD’s roadmap and Mark Papermaster the CTO of the company has just posted a blog comforting investors and assuring customers that both CPU and GPU designs at 7nm are in safe hands at TSMC.

AMD Linux driver GPU is not Navi
Published in Graphics
Thursday, 21 December 2017 09:32

AMD Linux driver GPU is not Navi


Way too early for that

Sorry to disappoint AMD fans but the new_chip.gfx10.mmSUPER_SECRET.enable [0: 0] is not Navi, as that is unlikely to show in 2018.

Qualcomm 7nm made by TSMC
Published in Mobiles
Friday, 24 November 2017 14:03

Qualcomm 7nm made by TSMC


The one after Snapdragon 845

Korean based Etnews has mentioned that Qualcomm 7nm manufacturing has been a big win for TSMC while two other US and China customers chose Samsung’s 7nm. TSMC traditionially have dibs on Nvidia and MediaTek too. 

Taiwanese manufacturers show strong June growth
Published in News


Up, up and away

A tranche of hardware makers on the island of Taiwan have released figures that show they were on a roll in June.

IBM, GlobalFoundries and Samsung come up with 5nm process
Published in PC Hardware


Will cost about the same as 10nm

IBM, GlobalFoundries (GloFo), and Samsung said yesterday that they have found a way to make 5nm  transistors, which may well enable them to pack 30 billion switches onto a microprocessor chip.

Intel to re-enter foundry business
Published in News
Wednesday, 17 August 2016 15:31

Intel to re-enter foundry business

Deja vu

Chip giant Intel said at its Developer Forum in San Francisco that it will license ARM technology and offer smartphone makers the chance to make microprocessors using its 10 nanometer fabrication technique.

AMD 2017 Opteron has three sockets
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 20 July 2016 18:52

AMD 2017 Opteron has three sockets


Exclusive: 4, 8, 12, 16, 24 and 32 core versions

Zen-based Opteron processors should appear by mid-2017 and our deep throats have revealed that there will be three different sockets. Not only that, the entry level Zen based processors will come in four or eight Zen core configurations and they will use the  SP4r2 BGA socket. AMD has been developing them under the Snowy Owl codename.