ASIC North Enters Strategic Channel Partnership with GlobalFoundries

October 7, 2025 -- ASIC North, Inc. has entered into a strategic Channel Partner agreement with GlobalFoundries (GF), a leading global semiconductor manufacturer.  As a GF Channel Partner, ASIC North will bring GF’s differentiated technologies to more applications around the world by selling design services, facilitating production, and driving products through the full semiconductor life cycle.

ASIC North will market and sell GF’s advanced semiconductor manufacturing services and technologies to new and existing GF customers.  With a global manufacturing footprint spanning the United States, Europe and Asia, GF is focused on delivering differentiated, essential chip technologies that enable billions of devices across a broad range of end markets, including automotive, communications infrastructure and datacenter, smart mobile devices and IoT. GF’s product portfolio includes digital, analog, mixed-signal, RF, ultra-low power and embedded memory technologies.

“ASIC North has been an advocate for GF differentiated technologies for decades.  We are thrilled to become a GF Channel Partner,” says Mike Slattery, ASIC North President.  “ASIC North is uniquely positioned to assist fabless semiconductor companies to bring their products to market, especially driving complex RF and Analog/Mixed-signal designs that leverage GF’s differentiated technologies.”

“GF is proud to strengthen our partnership with ASIC North, building on over a decade of collaboration, and enter this new strategic alliance that expands access to our advanced chip technologies to the essential industries we serve,” said Samuel Vicari, chief customer officer at GF. “Through this partnership, we will be able to better serve our customers from concept to delivery with seamless support and expertise every step of the way.”

About ASIC North

Since 2000, ASIC North has been a leading VLSI design service provider. Specializing in enabling integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) and fabless semiconductor companies, ASIC North creates a broad range of semiconductor-based solutions. The ASIC North team offers vast experience in BiCMOS and CMOS (bulk, triple well, SOI, FinFET) technologies.  Our development teams excel in RF design, analog/mixed-signal design, ASIC design, an analog mixed-signal IP library, and characterization services.

Following release to manufacturing, ASIC North can facilitate the full product life cycle – ATE development, reliability qualification, first article inspection report and supply chain management. Let ASIC North be a catalyst and partner to bring your GF based products to market.