Winners & Losers of GloFo's China Deal
Junko Yoshida, Chief International Correspondent
EETimes (2/13/2017 06:41 PM EST)
Globalfoundries' $10 billion Chengdu fab announcement is a reminder of China's inexorable arms race for semiconductor production capacity. Who just gained from the deal? Who's losing ground as the fab tsunami sweeps over China?
Globalfoundries’ announcement last week that it intends to build a $10 billion fab in Chengdu, China, came as no surprise to the industry observers following China’s aggressive pursuit of a local soup-to-nuts semiconductor eco-system.
Bill McClean, president of market-watcher IC Insights, told my colleague Rick Merritt, “With TSMC, UMC, and SMIC expanding their foundry capacity in China, I believe that Globalfoundries believes that they need to do something as well.”
Globalfoundries’ move is a reminder of China’s inexorable arms race for semiconductor production capacity.
To read the full article, click here
Related Semiconductor IP
- Heterogeneous eFPGA architecture with LUTs, DSPs, and BRAMs on GlobalFoundries GF12LP
- eFPGA on GlobalFoundries GF12LP
- ADPLL 2GHz Clock Generator - GLOBALFOUNDRIES 22FDX
- Wide Range Programmable Integer PLL on GLOBALFOUNDRIES 28SLPE
- Wide Range Programmable Integer PLL on GLOBALFOUNDRIES 130N
Related News
- Opinion: Winners, losers in ATIC-Chartered deal
- Who are winners, losers in IC rankings?
- China lawsuits threaten Nvidia-Arm deal
- TSMC Intends to Expand Its Investment in the United States to US$165 Billion to Power the Future of AI
Latest News
- Will RISC-V reduce auto MCU’s future risk?
- Frontgrade Gaisler Launches New GRAIN Line and Wins SNSA Contract to Commercialize First Energy-Efficient Neuromorphic AI for Space Applications
- Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution (CV-QKD) system demonstration
- Latest intoPIX JPEG XS Codec Powers FOR-A’s FA-1616 for Efficient IP Production at NAB 2025
- VeriSilicon Launches ISP9000: The Next-Generation AI-Embedded ISP for Intelligent Vision Applications