Saratoga County, N.Y. - 09 Jan 2012: GLOBALFOUNDRIES and IBM (NYSE: ) today announced an agreement to jointly manufacture advanced computer chips at the companies' semiconductor fabs in New York's "Tech Valley." The chips are the first silicon produced at GLOBALFOUNDRIES' newest and most advanced manufacturing facility, "Fab 8" in Saratoga County, and are planned to ramp to volume production in the second half of 2012. The new products recently began initial production at IBM's 300mm fab in East Fishkill.
The chips are based on IBM's 32nm, Silicon-on-Insulator
(SOI) technology, which was jointly developed with
GLOBALFOUNDRIES and other members of IBM's Process
Development Alliance, with early research at the University
at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and
Engineering. The technology vastly improves
microprocessor performance in multi-core designs and speeds
the movement of graphics in gaming, networking, and other
image intensive, multi-media applications. The SOI
process was used to build the microprocessor that powered
IBM Watson, the question-answering computer that won the
Jeopardy! quiz show in early 2011.
"IBM has helped make New York State one of the world's
premier locations for semiconductor design and
manufacturing," said Michael Cadigan, general manager, IBM
Microelectronics. "Recently, we announced that we would
spend $3.6 billion researching and developing new silicon
technology in New York. We bring the skills, investments
and partnerships that keep New York at the forefront of
advanced silicon development and manufacturing."
"Today's announcement is a natural extension of our
longstanding partnership with IBM that includes production
of 65nm and 45nm chips at our fabs in Singapore and
Germany," said GLOBALFOUNDRIES CEO Ajit Manocha. "With the
addition of our newest factory in New York, we will now be
jointly producing chips with IBM at four fabs on three
continents."
New York's "homegrown" HKMG technology offers cost-savings,
better performance
GLOBALFOUNDRIES' new Fab 8 campus, located in the Luther
Forest Technology Campus about 100 miles north of the IBM
campus in East Fishkill, stands as one of the most
technologically advanced wafer fabs in the world and the
largest leading-edge semiconductor foundry in the United
States. When fully ramped, the total clean-room space will
be approximately 300,000 square feet and will be capable of
a total output of approximately 60,000 wafers per month.
Fab 8 will focus on leading-edge manufacturing at 32/28nm
and below.
The companies' 32/28nm technology uses the same "Gate
First" approach to High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) that has
reached volume production in GLOBALFOUNDRIES' Fab 1 in
Dresden, Germany. This approach to HKMG offers higher
performance with a 10-20% cost saving over HKMG solutions
offered by other foundries, while still providing the full
entitlement of scaling from the 45/40nm node.
The new chips also will feature IBM's eDRAM (embedded
dynamic random access memory) technology, which
dramatically improves on-processor memory performance in
about one-third the space with one-fifth the standby power
of conventional SRAM (static random access memory). IBM
chips are at the heart of the company's server and
storage systems, the world's fastest supercomputers and
many of the best-known and widely used communications and
consumer electronics brands.
ABOUT GLOBALFOUNDRIES
GLOBALFOUNDRIES is the world's first full-service
semiconductor foundry with a truly global manufacturing and
technology footprint. Launched in March 2009 through a
partnership between AMD [NYSE: AMD] and the Advanced
Technology Investment Company (ATIC), GLOBALFOUNDRIES
provides a unique combination of advanced technology,
manufacturing excellence and global operations. With the
integration of Chartered Semiconductor in January 2010,
GLOBALFOUNDRIES significantly expanded its capacity and
ability to provide best-in-class foundry services from
mainstream to the leading edge. GLOBALFOUNDRIES is
headquartered in Silicon Valley with manufacturing
operations in Singapore, Germany, and Saratoga County, New
York. These sites are supported by a global network of R&D,
design enablement, and customer support in Singapore,
China, Taiwan, Japan, the United States, Germany, and the
United Kingdom.
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