Thread: GlobalFoundries points Programs For 2011 And outside.

On September 1, GlobalFoundries brought host to the 1st annual Global engineering Conference (GTC for short). While there were a reasonable number of partner demonstrations on screeen, the league was primarily repelled by GlobalFoundries execs and proclamations. When we spoke to GlobalFoundries in March we mentioned on the company's belligerent roadmap; we were curious to assure if the company would even be on track 6 months later.


Grounded on points out constructed by company CEO, GlobalFoundries is on track to recognize approximately $4 billion in revenue for the year 2010 and plans to repeat its size within 2 years (it's unreadable if this concerns to revenue, wafer starts, or customer base). The company's yearn-term plans for Charter semiconductor accept been clarified—contempt the age of sure Chartered factories, lots of them are well-tuned and optimized for their living production lines.




Chartered is able of up to 210,000 200mm wafer beginnings per month (split across five fabs) and 50,000 300mm / 65nm wafer beginnings per month. These procedure nodes may seem old to PC enthusiasts, but they even account for an tremendous amount of taxation—in Q2 2010, the majority of TSMC's taxation (fifty-five percent) arrived from its 150+ nm nodes (twenty-eight percent) and its 65nm/55nm node (twenty-seven percent). At present, took Fab seven produces approximately 40nm tech; this capacity will be shifted to Dresden.


Fab seven will be committed to 65/55nm product on 300mm wafers, and will ramp up to the 50,000 WPM (wafers per month) we remarked before.At Dresden, the fabs GlobalFoundries transmitted from AMD are both slated for overhauls and enlargements of their own. GlobalFoundries intends to boost the entire end product of the two fabs up to 80,000 WPM, up from an original 50K. Both facilities will be committed to sub-45nm production with a near-term focus on surmounting some 32nm SOI and 28nm bulk silicon.