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GlobalFoundries Establishes Avera Semiconductor: a Custom Chip Company
GlobalFoundries this week announced that it has spun off its ASIC Solutions division, establishing Avera Semiconductor, a wholly owned subsidiary that will help fabless chip developers to design their products. Avera will work closely with GlobalFoundries' customers to enable them take advantage of various process technologies that GF has, but the company will also establish ties with other contract makers of semiconductors to help their clients develop chips to be made using leading edge process technologies at 7 nm and beyond.
[...] The new wholly owned subsidiary of GlobalFoundries has over 850 employees, an annual revenue of over $500 million, and ongoing projects worth $3 billion. By working not only with clients of GlobalFoundries, but expanding to customers of companies like Samsung Foundry and TSMC, Avera has a chance to increase its earnings over time. Avera Semi is led by Kevin O'Buckley, a former head of ASIC Solutions, who joined GlobalFoundries from IBM.
Shuffling money on the Titanic?
Previously: AMD, GlobalFoundries Renew Vows, Focus on Path to 7nm
GlobalFoundries to Spend $10-12 Billion on a 7nm Fab, Possibly $14-18 Billion for 5nm
AnandTech Interview With the CTO of GlobalFoundries: 7nm EUV and 5 GHz Clock Speeds
GlobalFoundries Abandons "7nm LP" Node, TSMC and Samsung to Pick Up the Slack
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 04 2018, @10:37PM (1 child)
It seems like AMD really wanted 7 nm but GF just couldn't deliver, which triggered something in their secret wafer agreement. So now they are both exploring other options. AMD is going with TSMC, while GF is showing off their 14 nm tech to whoever will take a look.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday November 04 2018, @10:54PM
The days of AMD having its hands tied by the Wafer Supply Agreement with GlobalFoundries are probably over [wccftech.com].
They could still use GF for some parts, and older parts. For example, AMD just launched a "28nm" APU [anandtech.com] for reasons. See also Intel backing down to "22nm" for chipsets [soylentnews.org].
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