GlobalFoundries Integrates Chartered

摘要

GlobalFoundries officially brought Chartered Semiconductor into its fold, moving the GlobalFoundries operations headquarters to a former Chartered building in Milpitas, Calif., and beginning a head-to-head foundry competition with TSMC. About 100 GlobalFoundries workers moved from Sunnyvale, Calif., into the new headquarters.rnWith CEO Doug Grose, who earlier worked at IBM, remaining at the helm, former Chartered CEO Chia Songhwee is now the COO of GlobalFoundries. The 300 mm fab in upstate New York, expected to begin production in 2012, is now referred to as Fab 8, and the two fab modules in eastern Germany are called Fab 1. Those 300 mm fabs complement the 300 mm fab in Singapore, Fab 7, along with five 200 mm fabs in Singapore. By 2014, GlobalFoundries said it expects to have annual capacity for 1.6 million 300 mm wafers, and 2.2 million 200 mm wafers, for a total of 5.8 million 200 mm equivalents.