Continent add a 12-inch fab! Glover will build a factory in Chongqing

Date: 2017-02-15Source: Sun Surface Chemical Author:Sun Surface Access:

       Following the AOS12-inch MOSFET power semiconductor project in March after landing, Chongqing re-force semiconductor manufacturing, in May 31th and the world's leading integrated circuit manufacturing company Grosfeld (Global foundry) signed a memorandum of understanding, the two sides will be a joint venture in Chongqing 12 inch factory.

Glover is one of the world's largest foundry companies, founded in 2009 3 years, headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Glover was disassembled in 2009 from AMD's manufacturing division and acquired Singapore Chartered Semiconductor in January 2010, and its controlling shareholder is the UAE New Technology Investment Company.

Advanced process, Glover Fidelity has a mass production with Samsung 14nm, and announced in 2015 into the 7nm process development. The company said earlier that its 22-FDX fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) process is expected to be available this year.

Gloriafeld is actively seeking to expand its share of the Chinese semiconductor market, which in January 2014 spent $ 1.5 billion to acquire the IBM chip manufacturing business to lay out the Chinese mainland market.

China's semiconductor investment heat is not reduced, this year's manufacturing project is much faster. Previously, Wuhan new core two memory project, Jiangsu Huai'an De Kema image sensor IDM project, Chongqing AOS12-inch MOSFET power semiconductor project, Nanjing TSMC project has started. In addition, the purple group recently said it would invest 30 billion US dollars in layout memory manufacturing.

       According to the plan, this project includes the use of GLOBALFOUNDRIES Singapore plant in the mature technology, an existing semiconductor factory upgrade to 12-inch wafer manufacturing plant. The joint venture will directly purchase modern advanced equipment to save time to market, is expected to be put into operation in 2017.

       Chongqing Mayor Huang Qifan pointed out that in recent years, Chongqing has been vigorously developing the electronic information industry, becoming China's most important intelligent product manufacturing base. During the 13th Five-Year Plan, Chongqing will continue to develop intelligent IC and other strategic emerging industries to promote the healthy and sustainable development of regional economy. GLOBALFOUNDRIES is a world-renowned IC manufacturing company, welcome them to participate in, through cooperation to achieve mutual benefit and win-win situation. The cooperation between the two sides will help Chongqing to enhance the production technology of integrated circuits, improve Taiwan's IC supply rate, and further improve the Chongqing electronic information industry chain.

       GLOBALFOUNDRIES continues to strengthen its sales, support and design services in China, and plans to double this year than last year. The company has deployed world-class design centers in Beijing and Shanghai, China, and has strong technical capabilities in ASIC custom design, with foundry design capabilities for a variety of technology nodes and an important regional partner in design and IP ecosystems.

       As the world's second largest semiconductor foundry, GLOBALFOUNDRIES was originally AMD's semiconductor manufacturing division, AMD in 2008 to dismantle the business and most of its stake in the sale of the United Arab Ulysa Abu Dhabi advanced technology Investment company (ATIC).

       In October 2010, GLOBALFOUNDRIES was the exclusive server processor for IBM's 22-nanometer technology, 14-nanometer technology and 10-nanometer chip technology, after 10 years of sales of GLOBALFOUNDRIES to GLOBALFOUNDRIES for GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Business.

       In the TSMC, Samsung, UMC and other companies in the fierce competition, GLOBALFOUNDRIES in the key technical nodes 28nm and 14nm research and development frustration, yield is not high, had also pointed out that its profitability worrying, continuous losses. At present, GLOBALFOUNDRIES is preparing to vigorously enter the 7nm process, with TSMC and so on a must.