GlobalFoundries targets fast-growing automotive chip market

Posted on Thursday, December 28 2017 @ 10:18 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
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DigiTimes reports GlobalFoundries is setting up new initiatives to gain more orders from automotive clients. This is a fast-growing market as demand for chips for electric vehicles, driverless cars and drones is soaring rapidly:
The firm's AutoPro technology platform is designed to provide automotive electronics customers with total solutions to simplify their product accreditation process and facilitate the launch of new smart cars, aiming to grab a larger slice of the global automotive semiconductor market, estimated to reach an annual level of US$54 billion by 2023.

The platform covers FD-SOI (fully depleted silicon on insulator), SiGe (silicon germanium), CMOS and FinFET processes, and can also offer ASIC design, packaging and silicon IP services, providing customers with full series of technologies and services to satisfy their needs for smart-car connections and applications.

Meanwhile, Globalfoundries's 12-inch Fab 1 in Dresden enjoy a geographic advantage in supplying automotive semiconductor to leading automakers in Germany, including Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, and Mercedes, as well as major auto parts and components suppliers including Continental and Bosch.
The site cites figures from IC Insights, which claim automotive parts commanded 10 percent of global terminal market IC consumptions in 2016.


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