On July 12, according to foreign media reports, wafer generation detect GlobalFoundries IBM semiconductor business in July 2015 after expiry of one year, not only become the world's second largest wafer generation industry, after TSMC, and count more than 10000 have patents, with seven years of the us department of defense chip generation of labor contracts, GlobalFoundries is more with the chongqing municipal government signed the memorandum of cooperation, plan in chongqing joint venture set up 12 inches fabs, recent will also originally located in the East New York, IBM Fishkill advanced process factory into innovation center, accelerate overall capabilities, full wafer foundry.
IBM to get rid of the loss of indebted semiconductor manufacturing operations, not only agreed to pay GlobalFoundries about $1.5 billion, and served in East Fishkill chip factory about 5000 technical staff, provide more GlobalFoundries thousands of patents and inventions, made GlobalFoundries has patent number has reached 10000, IBM, GlobalFoundries capacity safeguard in the future 10 years. The deal completed in early July 2015, up to now have received 1 year.
GlobalFoundries with IBM semiconductor design and technical assistance, signed with the United States department of defense smoothly in June seven years of chip generation of labor agreement, will be for the U.S. government production including spy satellites, missiles and aircraft to use advanced military chip. GlobalFoundries leaders said, the future will continue to improve technical strength, the development including drones, robot, self-drive application products, etc.
Facing the huge business opportunities for China semiconductor market, and the government put pressure on semiconductor industry, the corresponding semiconductor used must be made in China, GlobalFoundries not only set up a design center in Beijing, Shanghai, and through the joint venture with the chongqing municipal government set up 12 inches factory, layout of local production base in China, the two sides have signed the memorandum of cooperation, is expected to reach a final agreement in August.
In addition, GlobalFoundries also keep original IBM in East Fishkill research and development team, integration of resources for the development of innovation center, it will continue to IBM has invested years of previous part of the research and development plans, such as Silicon Photonics (Silicon Photonics) technology, smart phones and other devices through the photon may be at a faster pace right transfer large amounts of data, and further transmission distance, GlobalFoundries was launched in 2017 is expected to use the technology of related products.
In fact, GlobalFoundries IBM semiconductor business in July 2015, after the fourth quarter sales growth momentum enhanced obviously, if GlobalFoundries without IBM semiconductor business, 2015 sales downturn could happen. GlobalFoundries, senior vice President of product management department Mike Cadigan, said the global semiconductor market, but its data communications infrastructure in the enterprise market still has good performance, and intelligent mobile application is one of the main business.
GlobalFoundries will continue to face fierce competition in the future, and because of China's semiconductor market growth is slowing, plus Britain to take off the market uncertainty, the global semiconductor industry will face greater challenges, semiconductor trade statistics association (WSTS) forecasts for 2016 global semiconductor market scale will continue to decline, although in 2017 is expected to rebound, but may have to wait until the 2018 global semiconductor market scale will surpass 2015 levels.
