Posted on Friday, June 05 2009 @ 13:34 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
GlobalFoundries Vice President of Manufacturing Systems and Technology Tom Sonderman
told the press that the new foundry has achieved mature yields for 45nm, and expects to ramp 28nm at Fab 2 by 2011.
Globalfoundries intends to migrate all production at Fab 1 to 40/45nm by the end of 2009, in order to pave the way for sub-28nm production at Fab 2 on schedule, said Sonderman.
Positioned as a foundry start-up initially focusing on 45nm, Globalfoundries is already seen as a major rival of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), but when asked about the company's outlook, Sonderman only commented that Globalfoundries' goal is to advance its process technology to the sub-45nm class ahead of Intel.
