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Globalfoundries to build FDSOI fab in China
Globalfoundries Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has said it will invest in increasing its manufacturing capacity both at existing wafer fabs and by building a 300mm wafer fab in China through a joint venture with the Chengdu Municipality.
By Peter Clarke, EETimes Europe, Feb. 16, 2017 –
The joint venture is Gexin (Chengdu) Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Co, Ltd. and is being built to satisfy Chinese and global demand for company's 22FDX 22nm fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI) manufacturing process, Globalfoundries said.
Neither the value of capital expenditure globally nor in China, nor the time-scale were revealed. Similarly Globalfoundries' share in the joint venture was not disclosed. Globalfoundries is a private company owned by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi through Mubadala Development Company, the emirate's national wealth fund.