GlobalFoundries said in the complaint that IBM shared intellectual property and trade secrets with Japanese semiconductor company Rapidus. Currently, IBM is working with Rapidus to develop and produce cutting-edge 2nm chips.

In addition, GlobalFoundries alleges that IBM illegally disclosed and misused its intellectual property to Intel. IBM announced in 2021 that it will work with Intel to advance research on next-generation logic and packaging technologies to accelerate innovation in semiconductor development and manufacturing.

“IBM may have unfairly received hundreds of millions of dollars in licensing revenue and other benefits,” GlobalFoundries said in a statement. The indictment says GlobalFoundries and IBM have collaborated on technology for decades in Albany, N.Y. . In 2015, GlobalFoundries received exclusive rights to license and disclose these technologies.

To this end, GlobalFoundries today sought compensatory and punitive damages from IBM, and asked the court to order IBM to stop using these trade secrets.

GlobalFoundries also said that IBM has been “poaching” the company’s engineers. Since announcing its partnership with Rapidus in December 2022, IBM has stepped up its poaching efforts. Therefore, GlobalFoundries also asked the court to order an order prohibiting IBM from doing this.

This is also the second time GlobalFoundries has sued IBM since it acquired the IBM semiconductor factory in 2015. In 2021, GlobalFoundries asked a judge to rule that the company did not breach a contract with IBM. Previously, IBM claimed $2.5 billion from GlobalFoundries for breach of contract. A GlobalFoundries spokesman said the lawsuit is still ongoing.

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According to VTDigger, the layoffs are not concentrated in any one geographic area and are planned to be implemented by the end of 2022. The layoffs are primarily for non-production positions and will include executive-level reductions.

The company previously released preliminary financial results for its fiscal third quarter of 2022, which ended Sept. 30. The company shipped a record 637,000 300mm wafers, a 5 percent increase over the same period last year.

Gracore also reported record revenue of $2.1 billion, an increase of 22 percent, a record net income of $336 million and an adjusted net income of $368 million.

Gracore received $30 million (approximately RMB 211 million) in federal funding in October to help prepare for the development and production of next-generation GaN-on-Si semiconductors at its Essex Concrete, Vermont facility.

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For GF, the partnership with Purdue will be overseen by GF Laboratories, which leads the company’s research and development efforts, working with leading academic, government and industry collaborators to advance GF’s differentiated technology portfolio.

Earlier this year, Purdue University launched the first large-scale comprehensive semiconductor degree program in the United States, offering an innovative set of interdisciplinary degrees and certificates in the field of semiconductors and microelectronics. GF’s chief technology officer, Gregg Bartlett, is an inaugural member of Purdue’s semiconductor degree leadership committee, which advises the program and its curriculum. This area is one of the key topics in Purdue’s “Next Steps,” a strategic initiative to advance the University’s competitive advantage.

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GlobalFoundries stated that in this position, Wallace will lead GF’s global supply chain operations, including logistics, supply planning, procurement and procurement, to drive operational efficiency and support the company’s continued growth.

GlobalFoundries Chief Financial Officer David Reeder noted that Wallace’s expertise in supply chain management will continue to ensure that GF is at the forefront of the industry in navigating the current environment and near-term supply chain challenges while preparing for the future.

According to the data, Wallace recently served as Cisco’s vice president of service supply chain and global logistics, responsible for global logistics operations and service supply chain. Prior to joining Cisco, Wallace held various leadership positions at Dell Technologies, including Vice President of Worldwide Server Procurement and Vice President of Worldwide Inventory Management.

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The data shows that GlobalFoundries employs about 15,000 people worldwide, and its business in China accounts for about 10% of the world’s. Currently, there are no semiconductor production facilities in China.

According to previous reports from Bloomberg, on November 11, GlobalFoundries announced the start of layoffs and a freeze on recruitment but did not disclose the specific time of layoffs and which departments would be affected. Previously, GlobalFoundries said in an earnings conference call that the company was working on a plan to reduce operating expenses by $200 million a year.

The financial report shows that GF’s third-quarter revenue was US$2.1 billion (approximately RMB 15.204 billion), a year-on-year increase of 22%; net income was US$336 million (approximately RMB 2.433 billion).

GlobalFoundries CEO Thomas Caulfield said when talking about the third quarter financial data that the company “achieved record gross profit, operating profit and net profit” and “we are still expected to achieve strong growth and profitability this year. .”

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Back in August, Google and GlobalFoundries announced the creation of an open source Process Design Kit (PDK) targeting the latter’s 180nm “180MCU” technology platform.

In the initial announcement, it was implied that Google would continue to offer its “No Cost Silicon Implementation Program” to provide initial batches of chips to be manufactured for those who complete successful open source chip designs. Through the SkyWater program, Google underwrote the cost of six shuttle runs, which resulted in 350 unique silicon designs being realized, of which approximately 240 were successfully manufactured into finished products.

Google is now officially announcing their funding for open source silicon manufacturing using GlobalFoundries 180nm process PDK. In the coming months, there will be a series of no-cost shuttle runs using the GF180MCU. As with the previous runs, the chip design must be fully open source, must be a reproducible source design, must be submitted within a specified time frame, and must pass a pre-fabrication check.

While 180nm is not considered advanced for leading PC components, 180nm still has a large number of practical applications in global industry and is widely used in areas such as the Internet of Things, automobiles, and other more basic electronics.

180nm manufacturing for CPUs was used back in the days of some Intel Celeron CPUs for Socket 478 and AMD Athlon Thunderbird (Sprint) and Duron (Toxic Dragon) processors, etc. GlobalFoundries’ 180nm manufacturing process is still useful for other ASICs, especially for those that are being used by Google bears the cost of startup open source projects.

The first applications are now being accepted for submission until December 5th. Those wishing to learn more can see this blog post from Google on their open source blog. The sponsorship was first announced on October 31, but only appeared on their RSS feed this weekend.

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(From: Google Open Source Blog)

In a Google Open Source blog post published Wednesday, the company’s open source team announced that GlobalFoundries has become the latest member to join its Open Source Chip Initiative and provide access to 180nm chip manufacturing technology.

"Google and GlobalFoundries today announced the open source Process Design Kit (PDK) for the Grofond 180nm / 180MCU technology platform.

The PDFs are available under the Apache 2.0 license and Google will have a free Efabless silicon implementation project to build the open source design (similar to the SkyWater program)."

Google / gf180mcu-pdk (Portal: GitHub)

Over the past two years, Google has aggressively pushed six times for more than 350 unique silicon designs, and about 240 of them have been built for free.

Now, with access to the SkyWater 90nm and GlobalFoundries 180nm processes, Google’s vision of open source silicon design will see even wider adoption.

While the 180nm number is not very exciting in terms of process “sophistication”, current high-end processors have generally embraced 7nm (and even sub-5nm).

But Phoronix points out that the mature 180nm process is still quite applicable in areas such as IoT, automotive, and MCU/PMIC.

Grosvenor expects its 180nm process to grow to over 22 million wafers by 2026 (compared to 16 million+ per year today).

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