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96-451: The XT3 consists of between 192 and 32,768 processing elements (PEs), where each PE comprises a 2.4 or 2.6 GHz AMD Opteron processor with up to two cores , a custom " SeaStar " communications chip, and between 1 and 8 GB of RAM . The PowerPC 440 based SeaStar device provides a 6.4 gigabyte per second connection to the processor across HyperTransport , as well as six 8-gigabyte per second links to neighboring PEs. The PEs are arranged in

192-545: A 64-bit extension to the x86 instruction set (called x86-64 , AMD64, or x64), the incorporation of an on-chip memory controller, and the implementation of an extremely high-performance point-to-point interconnect called HyperTransport , as part of the Direct Connect Architecture . The technology was initially launched as the Opteron server-oriented processor on April 22, 2003. Shortly thereafter, it

288-495: A chiplet design with the Zen 2 series. Zen 2 desktop and server processors consist of a 14/12 nm manufactured I/O die surrounded by a number of 7 nm core dies. When GlobalFoundries announced the suspension of 7 nm operations, AMD executed a shift in plans transferring production of the 7 nm core dies to TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company). There was speculation in some quarters as to where manufacture of

384-577: A 3-dimensional torus topology, with 96 PEs in each cabinet. The XT3 runs an operating system called UNICOS/lc that partitions the machine into three sections, the largest comprising the Compute nodes , and two smaller sections for Service nodes and IO nodes . In UNICOS/lc 1.x, the Compute PEs run a Sandia developed microkernel called Catamount, which is descended from the SUNMOS OS of

480-463: A 300 mm fab (now Fab 10) in East Fishkill, New York. As part of the agreement, GlobalFoundries will be the sole provider of IBM's server processor chips for the next 10 years. The deal closed on July 1, 2015. IBM-India employees who moved over to GlobalFoundries as part of the acquisition are now part of its Bangalore office. In April 2019 ON Semiconductor and GlobalFoundries announced

576-574: A US$ 500,000 the United States Department of Commerce for unlicensed shipments of US$ 17 million in product to a sanctioned entity related to Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation . In February 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced a $ 1.5 billion planned investment in GF as part of the CHIPS and Science Act , making GF the recipient of the first major award from

672-524: A contract with Intel , becoming a licensed second-source manufacturer of 8086 and 8088 processors. IBM wanted to use the Intel 8088 in its IBM PC , but its policy at the time was to require at least two sources for its chips. AMD later produced the Am286 under the same arrangement. In 1984, Intel internally decided to no longer cooperate with AMD in supplying product information to shore up its advantage in

768-494: A fast, cost-effective processor. Finally, in an agreement effective 1996, AMD received the rights to the microcode in Intel's x386 and x486 processor families, but not the rights to the microcode in the following generations of processors. AMD's first in-house x86 processor was the K5 , launched in 1996. The "K" in its name was a reference to Kryptonite , the only substance known to harm comic book character Superman . This itself

864-476: A group of other technology professionals. The company's early products were primarily memory chips and other components for computers. In 1975, AMD entered the microprocessor market, competing with Intel , its main rival in the industry. In the early 2000s, it experienced significant growth and success, thanks in part to its strong position in the PC market and the success of its Athlon and Opteron processors. However,

960-710: A joint venture with Siemens , a German engineering conglomerate wishing to enhance its technology expertise and enter the American market. Siemens purchased 20% of AMD's stock, giving the company an infusion of cash to increase its product lines. The two companies also jointly established Advanced Micro Computers (AMC), located in Silicon Valley and in Germany, allowing AMD to enter the microcomputer development and manufacturing field, in particular based on AMD's second-source Zilog Z8000 microprocessors. When

1056-459: A large, successful flash memory business, even during the dotcom bust . In 2003, to divest some manufacturing and aid its overall cash flow, which was under duress from aggressive microprocessor competition from Intel, AMD spun off its flash memory business and manufacturing into Spansion , a joint venture with Fujitsu , which had been co-manufacturing flash memory with AMD since 1993. In December 2005, AMD divested itself of Spansion to focus on

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1152-515: A maximum full capacity of 50,000 300 mm wafers/month (112,500 200 mm wafers/month equivalent), using 130 to 40 nm technology. 4/15/2021 Fab 7's target capacity will be expanded to 70–80kpcs/M. Fab 8, located in Luther Forest Technology Campus , Saratoga County, New York , United States is a 300 mm fab. This fabrication plant was constructed by GF as a green field fab for advanced technologies. It

1248-413: A new socket G34 for dual and quad-socket processors and thus will be marketed as Opteron 61xx series processors. Lisbon uses socket C32 certified for dual-socket use or single socket use only and thus will be marketed as Opteron 41xx processors. Both will be built on a 45 nm SOI process. Following AMD's 2006 acquisition of Canadian graphics company ATI Technologies , an initiative codenamed Fusion

1344-694: A new company temporarily called The Foundry Company. Mubadala announced their subsidiary Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) agreed to pay $ 700 million to increase their stake in AMD's semiconductor manufacturing business to 55.6 percent (up from 8.1 percent). Mubadala will invest $ 314 million for 58 million new shares, increasing their stake in AMD to 19.3 percent. $ 1.2 billion of AMD's debt will be transferred to The Foundry Company. On 8 December 2008 amendments were announced. AMD will own approximately 34.2 percent and ATIC will own approximately 65.8 percent of The Foundry Company. On 4 March 2009 GlobalFoundries

1440-526: A new native socket AM3 , while maintaining backward compatibility with AM2+ , the socket used for the Phenom, and allowing the use of the DDR2 memory that was used with the platform. In April 2010, AMD released a new Phenom II Hexa-core (6-core) processor codenamed " Thuban ". This was a totally new die based on the hexa-core "Istanbul" Opteron processor. It included AMD's "turbo core" technology, which allows

1536-546: A resolution to the dispute. The companies agreed to a new life-of-patents cross-license for all of their existing semiconductor patents as well as new patents to be filed by the companies in the next ten years. Fab 1, located in Dresden , Germany, is a 364,512 m plant which was transferred to GlobalFoundries on its inception: Fab 36 and Fab 38 were renamed Module 1 and Module 2, respectively. Each module can produce 25,000 300 mm diameter wafers per month. Module 1

1632-541: A strategy shift to focus on specialized processes instead of leading edge performance. On 29 January 2019 AMD announced an amended wafer supply agreement with GlobalFoundries. AMD now has full flexibility for wafer purchases from any foundry at 7 nm or beyond. AMD and GlobalFoundries agreed to commitments and pricing at 12 nm for 2019 through 2021. On 20 May 2019 Marvell Technology Group announced it would acquire Avera Semi from GlobalFoundries for $ 650 million and potentially an additional $ 90 million. Avera Semi

1728-582: A total of $ 3.9 billion, with Chartered's operations being folded into GlobalFoundries. Chartered Semiconductor is a member of the Common Platform , IBM 's semiconductor technology alliance. GlobalFoundries is a JDA partner of Common Platform Technology Alliance. In October 2014, GlobalFoundries received US$ 1.5 billion from IBM to accept taking over IBM Microelectronics , including a 200 mm fab (now Fab 9) in Essex Junction, Vermont, and

1824-498: A wide range of business and consumer markets, including gaming, data centers, artificial intelligence (AI), and embedded systems. AMD's main products include microprocessors , motherboard chipsets , embedded processors , and graphics processors for servers , workstations , personal computers, and embedded system applications. The company has also expanded into new markets, such as the data center , gaming , and high-performance computing markets. AMD's processors are used in

1920-408: A wide range of computing devices, including personal computers , servers, laptops , and gaming consoles . While it initially manufactured its own processors, the company later outsourced its manufacturing , after GlobalFoundries was spun off in 2009. Through its Xilinx acquisition in 2022, AMD offers field-programmable gate array (FPGA) products. AMD was founded in 1969 by Jerry Sanders and

2016-643: Is a "Trusted Foundry" for the U.S. federal government and has similar designations in Singapore and Germany, including certified international Common Criteria standard (ISO 15408, CC Version 3.1). On October 28, 2021, the company sold shares in an IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange at US$ 47 each, at the higher end of its targeted price range, and raised about US$ 2.6 billion. On 7 October 2008 Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced it planned to go fabless and spin off their semiconductor manufacturing business into

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2112-793: Is a 300 mm wafer production facility. It is capable of manufacturing wafers at 40 nm, 28 nm BULK and 22 nm FDSOI. Module 2 was originally named "(AMD) Fab 30" and was a 200 mm fab producing 30,000 Wafer Outs Per Month, but has now been converted into a 300 mm wafer fab. Together with other clean room extensions like the Annex they have a maximum full capacity of 80,000 of 300 mm wafers/month (180,000 200 mm wafers/month equivalent), using technologies of 45 nm and below. In September 2016, GlobalFoundries announced Fab 1 would be refit to produce 12 nm fully depleted silicon on insulator (FDSOI) products. The company expected customer's products would begin to tape out in

2208-499: Is a copper fabrication facility that is capable of manufacturing integrated CMOS and RFCMOS products for applications such as Wi-Fi & Bluetooth devices at 180 to 110 nm processes. The facility was later converted to 300mm and merged with Fab 7, a facility for manufacturing products based on the 300 nm node. Fab 9, located in the village of Essex Junction, Vermont , United States, near Vermont's largest city of Burlington , became part of GlobalFoundries operations with

2304-498: Is capable of manufacturing 14 nm node technology. The plant's construction began in July 2009 and the company started mass production in 2012. It has a maximum manufacturing capacity of 60,000 of 300 mm wafers/month, or the equivalent of over 135,000 of 200 mm wafers/month. In September 2016, GlobalFoundries announced it would make a multibillion-dollar investment to refit Fab 8 to produce 7 nm FinFET parts starting in

2400-970: Is capable of manufacturing wafers at 600 to 350 nm for use in selected automotive IC products, High Voltage power management IC and Mixed-signal products. Fab 3/5, located in Woodlands, Singapore. This fab is capable of manufacturing wafers at 350 to 180 nm for use in high voltage IC's for small panel display drivers and mobile power management modules. Fab 3E, located in Tampines, Singapore. This fab produces 180 nm wafers for use in selected automotive IC products, High Voltage power management IC and Mixed-Signal products with embedded non-volatile memory technology. In January 2019 GlobalFoundries announced that it had agreed to sell its Fab 3E in Singapore to Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation with transfer of ownership set to be completed on December 31, 2019. Fab 6 located in Woodlands, Singapore,

2496-764: Is likely the WSA will be amended again. In May 2023, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), through the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA), Trusted Access Program Office (TAPO), accredited GlobalFoundries' advanced manufacturing facility in Malta, New York, as a Category 1A Trusted Supplier. This accreditation enables GlobalFoundries to manufacture secure semiconductors for a wide range of critical aerospace and defense applications. Fab 10, located in East Fishkill, New York , United States,

2592-533: Is the industry's first production ready eMRAM. In May 2020 GlobalFoundries stated it was fully abandoning its plans of opening Fab 11 in Chengdu , China due to reported rivalry between the latter and the US. This was three years after the manufacturer announced it would invest $ 10 billion to open the new fab. But the fab was never brought online. On 26 April 2021 GlobalFoundries announced that effective immediately, it

2688-734: Is the third-largest semiconductor foundry by revenue. It is the only one with operations in Singapore , the European Union , and the United States: one 200 mm and one 300 mm wafer fabrication plant in Singapore ; one 300 mm plant in Dresden, Germany ; one 200 mm plant in Essex Junction, Vermont (where it is the largest private employer) and one 300 mm plant in Malta, New York . GlobalFoundries

2784-596: The AMD 700 chipset series . The Phenom II came in dual-core, triple-core and quad-core variants, all using the same die, with cores disabled for the triple-core and dual-core versions. The Phenom II resolved issues that the original Phenom had, including a low clock speed, a small L3 cache, and a Cool'n'Quiet bug that decreased performance. The Phenom II cost less but was not performance-competitive with Intel's mid-to-high-range Core 2 Quads. The Phenom II also enhanced its predecessor's memory controller, allowing it to use DDR3 in

2880-658: The Am386 , its clone of the Intel 386 processor. By October of the same year it had sold one million units. In 1993, AMD introduced the first of the Am486 family of processors, which proved popular with a large number of original equipment manufacturers , including Compaq , which signed an exclusive agreement using the Am486. The Am5x86 , another Am486-based processor, was released in November 1995, and continued AMD's success as

2976-559: The DRAM market, and made some headway into the CMOS market, which it had lagged in entering, having focused instead on bipolar chips. AMD had some success in the mid-1980s with the AMD7910 and AMD7911 "World Chip" FSK modem, one of the first multi-standard devices that covered both Bell and CCITT tones at up to 1200 baud half duplex or 300/300 full duplex. Beginning in 1986, AMD embraced

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3072-588: The Excavator microarchitecture replaced Piledriver. Expected to be the last microarchitecture of the Bulldozer series, Excavator focused on improved power efficiency. GlobalFoundries GlobalFoundries Inc. is a multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company incorporated in the Cayman Islands and headquartered in Malta, New York . Created by the divestiture of

3168-568: The Intel Paragon ; in UNICOS/lc 2.0, Catamount was replaced by a specially tuned version of Linux called Compute Node Linux (CNL). Service and IO PEs run the full version of SuSE Linux and are used for interactive logins, systems management, application compiling and job launch. I/O PEs use physically distinct hardware, in that the node boards include PCI-X slots for connections to Ethernet and Fibre Channel networks. Though

3264-512: The Supreme Court of California sided with the arbitrator and AMD. In 1990, Intel countersued AMD, renegotiating AMD's right to use derivatives of Intel's microcode for its cloned processors. In the face of uncertainty during the legal dispute, AMD was forced to develop clean room designed versions of Intel code for its x386 and x486 processors, the former long after Intel had released its own x386 in 1985. In March 1991, AMD released

3360-558: The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) awarded GlobalFoundries a 10-year contract for the supply of securely manufactured semiconductors for critical aerospace and defense applications. With an initial award of $ 17.3 million and an overall 10-year spending ceiling of $ 3.1 billion, this agreement ensures the DoD and its contractors have access to GF's U.S.-made semiconductors. This contract also provides access to GF's design ecosystem, IP libraries, and advanced technologies. In November 2024, GF paid

3456-667: The U.S. International Trade Commission , the U.S. Federal District Courts in the Districts of Delaware , the Western District of Texas , the Regional Courts of Düsseldorf , and Mannheim in Germany. GlobalFoundries has named 20 defendants: Apple , Broadcom , MediaTek , Nvidia , Qualcomm , Xilinx , Arista, ASUS , BLU, Cisco , Google , Hisense , Lenovo , Motorola , TCL , OnePlus , Avnet/EBV , Digi-Key and Mouser . On August 27, TSMC announced it

3552-465: The A4 utilizing the base Radeon HD chip and the rest using a Radeon R4 graphics card, with the exception of the highest-model A10 (A10-7300) which uses an R6 graphics card. Bulldozer was AMD's microarchitecture codename for server and desktop AMD FX processors, first released on October 12, 2011. This family 15h microarchitecture is the successor to the family 10h (K10) microarchitecture design. Bulldozer

3648-478: The AMD brand name. In October 2008, AMD announced plans to spin off manufacturing operations in the form of GlobalFoundries Inc. , a multibillion-dollar joint venture with Advanced Technology Investment Co. , an investment company formed by the government of Abu Dhabi . The partnership and spin-off gave AMD an infusion of cash and allowed it to focus solely on chip design. To assure the Abu Dhabi investors of

3744-726: The Am2501 logic counter, which was highly successful. Its bestselling product in 1971 was the Am2505, the fastest multiplier available. In 1971, AMD entered the RAM chip market, beginning with the Am3101, a 64-bit bipolar RAM. That year AMD also greatly increased the sales volume of its linear integrated circuits, and by year-end the company's total annual sales reached US$ 4.6 million. AMD went public in September 1972. The company

3840-555: The Llano. More AMD APUs for laptops running Windows 7 and Windows 8 OS are being used commonly. These include AMD's price-point APUs, the E1 and E2, and their mainstream competitors with Intel's Core i -series: The Vision A- series, the A standing for accelerated. These range from the lower-performance A4 chipset to the A6, A8, and A10. These all incorporate next-generation Radeon graphics cards, with

3936-740: The November 2008 Top500. The architecture was superseded in 2006 by the Cray XT4 . AMD Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ( AMD ) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California and maintains significant operations in Austin, Texas . AMD is a hardware and fabless company that designs and develops central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), system-on-chip (SoC), and high-performance compute solutions. AMD serves

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4032-514: The Spider at 65nm , which was uncompetitive with Intel's smaller and more power-efficient 45nm . In January 2009, AMD released a new processor line dubbed Phenom II , a refresh of the original Phenom built using the 45 nm process. AMD's new platform, codenamed " Dragon ", used the new Phenom II processor, and an ATI R770 GPU from the R700 GPU family, as well as a 790 GX/FX chipset from

4128-630: The United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. In February 2017, the company announced a new 300 Fab [Fab 11] in China for growing semiconductor market in China. In 2016 GlobalFoundries licensed the 14 nm 14LPP FinFET process from Samsung Electronics . In 2018 GlobalFoundries developed the 12 nm 12LP node based on Samsung's 14 nm 14LPP process. On 27 August 2018 GlobalFoundries announced it had cancelled their 7LP process due to

4224-466: The United States. AMD rode out the mid-1980s crisis by aggressively innovating and modernizing, devising the Liberty Chip program of designing and manufacturing one new chip or chipset per week for 52 weeks in fiscal year 1986, and by heavily lobbying the U.S. government until sanctions and restrictions were put in place to prevent predatory Japanese pricing. During this time, AMD withdrew from

4320-530: The acquisition of IBM Microelectronics. The fab manufactures technologies down to the 90 nm node and is the largest private employer within the state of Vermont. The site also hosted a captive mask shop , with development efforts down to the 7 nanometer node, until it was sold to Toppan in 2019. The majority investor of GlobalFoundries, Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Investment Co., announced on September 6, 2009, that it has agreed to acquire Singapore-based Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. , for

4416-403: The amount of different chips needed in its vehicles. The companies planned for production in Malta, New York. The deal would not lead to new jobs right away but would rather ensure stability in the supply of chips. At the time of the announcement, GlobalFoundries CEO Thomas Caufield said the full effect of this increase in production would be seen in two to three years. On September 21, 2023,

4512-554: The brand name Athlon on June 23, 1999. Unlike previous AMD processors, it could not be used on the same motherboards as Intel's, due to licensing issues surrounding Intel's Slot 1 connector, and instead used a Slot A connector, referenced to the Alpha processor bus. The Duron was a lower-cost and limited version of the Athlon (64 KB instead of 256 KB L2 cache) in a 462-pin socketed PGA (socket A) or soldered directly onto

4608-537: The coming months. GlobalFoundries was a gold sponsor for the Special Olympics Vermont Penguin Plunge which raised over $ 500,000 in 2022 to support Vermont athletes. In February 2023 GlobalFoundries signed a deal to become the exclusive provider of US-produced semiconductor chips for General Motors amid an ongoing shift to electric vehicles in what was referred to as an "industry-first" deal. It would help General Motors reduce

4704-545: The company already had overseas assembly facilities in Penang and Manila , and began construction on a fabrication plant in San Antonio in 1981. In 1980, AMD began supplying semiconductor products for telecommunications, an industry undergoing rapid expansion and innovation. Intel had introduced the first x86 microprocessors in 1978. In 1981, IBM created its PC , and wanted Intel's x86 processors, but only under

4800-466: The company faced challenges in the late 2000s and early 2010s, as it struggled to keep up with Intel in the race to produce faster and more powerful processors. In the late 2010s, AMD regained market share by pursuing a penetration pricing strategy and building on the success of its Ryzen processors, which were considerably more competitive with Intel microprocessors in terms of performance while offering attractive pricing. Advanced Micro Devices

4896-498: The company, which concluded AMD's multi-year plan to divest its manufacturing arm. On 20 October 2014 IBM announced the sale of its microelectronics business to GlobalFoundries. As of 2015 the firm owned ten fabrication plants. Fab 1 is in Dresden , Germany. Fabs 2 through 7 are in Singapore. Fabs 8 through 10 are in the northeast United States. These sites are supported by a global network of R&D, design enablement, and customer support in Singapore, China, Taiwan, Japan, India,

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4992-516: The condition that Intel would also provide a second-source manufacturer for its patented x86 microprocessors. Intel and AMD entered into a 10-year technology exchange agreement, first signed in October 1981 and formally executed in February 1982. The terms of the agreement were that each company could acquire the right to become a second-source manufacturer of semiconductor products developed by

5088-688: The core dies would take place. In AMD's 2018 fourth quarter financial conference call which took place on January 29, 2019, AMD CEO Lisa Su announced the WSA (Wafer Supply Agreement) governing production and acquisition by AMD from GlobalFoundries had been amended for the seventh time. The amendment stated AMD would continue to procure 12 nm node and above from GlobalFoundries while giving AMD latitude to purchase 7 nm node manufactured wafers from any source free from paying any royalties. The agreement will run through 2024 and ensures that GlobalFoundries will have work for its Malta plant for that time period. Pricing commitments for wafers run through 2021 when it

5184-467: The cross-licensing agreement would be effectively canceled. Beginning in 1982, AMD began volume-producing second-source Intel-licensed 8086, 8088, 80186, and 80188 processors, and by 1984, its own Am286 clone of Intel's 80286 processor, for the rapidly growing market of IBM PCs and IBM clones . It also continued its successful concentration on proprietary bipolar chips. The company continued to spend greatly on research and development, and created

5280-476: The early computer industry since unreliability in microchips was a distinct problem that customers – including computer manufacturers , the telecommunications industry , and instrument manufacturers – wanted to avoid. In November 1969, the company manufactured its first product: the Am9300, a 4-bit MSI shift register , which began selling in 1970. Also in 1970, AMD produced its first proprietary product,

5376-652: The end of 2014. After the GlobalFoundries spin-off and subsequent layoffs, AMD was left with significant vacant space at 1 AMD Place, its aging Sunnyvale headquarters office complex. In August 2016, AMD's 47 years in Sunnyvale came to a close when it signed a lease with the Irvine Company for a new 220,000 sq. ft. headquarters building in Santa Clara. AMD's new location at Santa Clara Square faces

5472-466: The end of 2022 when ON Semiconductor will gain full operational control. The 300mm fab is capable of 65 nm to 40 nm and was a part of IBM. On August 15, 2019, GlobalFoundries announced a multi-year supply agreement with Toppan Photomasks . The agreement included Toppan acquiring GlobalFoundries' Burlington photomask facility. In February 2020 GlobalFoundries announced that its embedded magnetoresistive non-volatile memory ( eMRAM ) entered production which

5568-472: The face of declining sales revenue. The inclusion of AMD chips into the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were later seen as saving AMD from bankruptcy. AMD acquired the low-power server manufacturer SeaMicro in early 2012, with an eye to bringing out an Arm64 server chip. On October 8, 2014, AMD announced that Rory Read had stepped down after three years as president and chief executive officer. He

5664-575: The first half of 2019. In 2020 the Dresden plant had a capacity of 300,000 wafers per year. In 2023, it was announced that GlobalFoundries plans to invest $ 8 billion in its Dresden facility, doubling the capacity of its largest production site. Fab 7, located in Woodlands, Singapore , is an operational 300 mm Fab, originally owned by Chartered Semiconductor . It produces wafers at 130 nm to 40 nm on bulk CMOS and SOI processes. It has

5760-452: The first server Opteron K10 processors, followed in November by the Phenom processor for desktop. K10 processors came in dual-core, triple-core , and quad-core versions, with all cores on a single die. AMD released a new platform codenamed " Spider ", which used the new Phenom processor, as well as an R770 GPU and a 790 GX/FX chipset from the AMD 700 chipset series . However, AMD built

5856-595: The footsteps of Robert Noyce (developer of the first silicon integrated circuit at Fairchild in 1959) and Gordon Moore , who together founded the semiconductor company Intel in July 1968. In September 1969, AMD moved from its temporary location in Santa Clara to Sunnyvale, California . To immediately secure a customer base, AMD initially became a second source supplier of microchips designed by Fairchild and National Semiconductor . AMD first focused on producing logic chips. The company guaranteed quality control to United States Military Standard , an advantage in

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5952-539: The funding initiative. This significant investment is set to bolster GF's efforts to expand and introduce new manufacturing capacities, thereby enhancing the production of critical semiconductors for automotive, IoT, aerospace, defense, and other vital sectors. On August 26, 2019, GlobalFoundries filed patent infringement lawsuits against TSMC and some of TSMC's customers in the US and Germany. GlobalFoundries claims TSMC's 7 nm, 10 nm, 12 nm, 16 nm, and 28 nm nodes have infringed on 16 of its patents. Lawsuits were filed in

6048-543: The future if additional resources could be secured. From this decision GlobalFoundries executed a shift in company strategy to focus more effort on FD-SOI manufacturing and R&D. Fab 8 serves a crucial function to supply AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) with CPU wafers for its Zen-based Ryzen, Threadripper and Epyc lines of CPUs. The original Zen and the Zen+ CPUs are of a monolithic design which were produced at GlobalFoundries facilities in Malta, NY . Going forward, AMD pursued

6144-613: The headquarters of archrival Intel across the Bayshore Freeway and San Tomas Aquino Creek . Around the same time, AMD also agreed to sell 1 AMD Place to the Irvine Company. In April 2019, the Irvine Company secured approval from the Sunnyvale City Council of its plans to demolish 1 AMD Place and redevelop the entire 32-acre site into townhomes and apartments. In October 2020, AMD announced that it

6240-552: The manufacturing arm of AMD , the company was privately owned by Mubadala Investment Company , a sovereign wealth fund of the United Arab Emirates , until an initial public offering (IPO) in October 2021. The company manufactures integrated circuits on wafers designed for markets such as smart mobile devices, automotive, aerospace and defense, consumer internet of things (IoT) and for data centers and communications infrastructure. As of 2023, GlobalFoundries

6336-459: The marketplace, and delayed and eventually refused to convey the technical details of the Intel 80386 . In 1987, AMD invoked arbitration over the issue, and Intel reacted by canceling the 1982 technological-exchange agreement altogether. After three years of testimony, AMD eventually won in arbitration in 1992, but Intel disputed this decision. Another long legal dispute followed, ending in 1994 when

6432-401: The microarchitecture, and a shift of the target market from mainstream desktop systems to value dual-core desktop systems. In 2008, AMD started to release dual-core Sempron processors exclusively in China, branded as the Sempron 2000 series, with lower HyperTransport speed and smaller L2 cache. AMD completed its dual-core product portfolio for each market segment. In September 2007, AMD released

6528-431: The microprocessor market with the Am9080 , a reverse-engineered clone of the Intel 8080 , and the Am2900 bit-slice microprocessor family. When Intel began installing microcode in its microprocessors in 1976, it entered into a cross-licensing agreement with AMD, which was granted a copyright license to the microcode in its microprocessors and peripherals, effective October 1976. In 1977, AMD entered into

6624-453: The microprocessor market, and Spansion went public in an IPO. On July 24, 2006, AMD announced its acquisition of the Canadian 3D graphics card company ATI Technologies . AMD paid $ 4.3 billion and 58 million shares of its capital stock , for approximately $ 5.4 billion. The transaction was completed on October 25, 2006. On August 30, 2010, AMD announced that it would retire the ATI brand name for its graphics chipsets in favor of

6720-412: The motherboard. Sempron was released as a lower-cost Athlon XP, replacing Duron in the socket A PGA era. It has since been migrated upward to all new sockets, up to AM3 . On October 9, 2001, the Athlon XP was released. On February 10, 2003, the Athlon XP with 512 KB L2 Cache was released. The K8 was a major revision of the K7 architecture, with the most notable features being the addition of

6816-483: The new Bulldozer products were slower than the K10 models they were built to replace. The Piledriver microarchitecture was the 2012 successor to Bulldozer, increasing clock speeds and performance relative to its predecessor. Piledriver would be released in AMD FX, APU, and Opteron product lines. Piledriver was subsequently followed by the Steamroller microarchitecture in 2013. Used exclusively in AMD's APUs, Steamroller focused on greater parallelism. In 2015,

6912-711: The new venture's success, AMD's CEO Hector Ruiz stepped down in July 2008, while remaining executive chairman, in preparation for becoming chairman of GlobalFoundries in March 2009. President and COO Dirk Meyer became AMD's CEO. Recessionary losses necessitated AMD cutting 1,100 jobs in 2009. In August 2011, AMD announced that former Lenovo executive Rory Read would be joining the company as CEO, replacing Meyer. In November 2011, AMD announced plans to lay off more than 10% (1,400) of its employees from across all divisions worldwide. In October 2012, it announced plans to lay off an additional 15% of its workforce to reduce costs in

7008-461: The other; that is, each party could "earn" the right to manufacture and sell a product developed by the other, if agreed to, by exchanging the manufacturing rights to a product of equivalent technical complexity. The technical information and licenses needed to make and sell a part would be exchanged for a royalty to the developing company. The 1982 agreement also extended the 1976 AMD–Intel cross-licensing agreement through 1995. The agreement included

7104-436: The perceived shift toward RISC with their own AMD Am29000 (29k) processor; the 29k survived as an embedded processor . The company also increased its EPROM memory market share in the late 1980s. Throughout the 1980s, AMD was a second-source supplier of Intel x86 processors. In 1991, it introduced its 386-compatible Am386 , an AMD-designed chip. Creating its own chips, AMD began to compete directly with Intel. AMD had

7200-525: The performance of each XT3 model will vary with the speed and number of processors installed, the November 2007 Top500 results for the Red Storm machine, the largest XT3 machine installed at Sandia, measured 102.7 teraflops on the Linpack benchmark, placing it at #6 on the list. After upgrades in 2008 to install some XT4 nodes with quad-core Opterons, Red Storm achieved 248 teraflops to place at #9 on

7296-525: The processor to automatically switch from 6 cores to 3 faster cores when more pure speed is needed. The Magny Cours and Lisbon server parts were released in 2010. The Magny Cours part came in 8 to 12 cores and the Lisbon part in 4 and 6 core parts. Magny Cours is focused on performance while the Lisbon part is focused on high performance per watt. Magny Cours is an MCM ( multi-chip module ) with two hexa-core "Istanbul" Opteron parts. This will use

7392-425: The right to invoke arbitration of disagreements, and after five years the right of either party to end the agreement with one year's notice. The main result of the 1982 agreement was that AMD became a second-source manufacturer of Intel's x86 microprocessors and related chips, and Intel provided AMD with database tapes for its 8086 , 80186 , and 80286 chips. However, in the event of a bankruptcy or takeover of AMD,

7488-596: The rights to their Nx series of x86-compatible processors. AMD gave the NexGen design team their own building, left them alone, and gave them time and money to rework the Nx686. The result was the K6 processor, introduced in 1997. Although it was based on Socket 7 , variants such as K6-III /450 were faster than Intel's Pentium II (sixth-generation processor). The K7 was AMD's seventh-generation x86 processor, making its debut under

7584-484: The second half of 2018. The process was planned to initially use deep ultraviolet lithography , and eventually transition to extreme ultraviolet lithography . However, in August 2018, GlobalFoundries made the decision to suspend 7 nm development and planned production, citing the unaffordable costs to outfit Fab 8 for 7 nm production. GlobalFoundries held open the possibility of resuming 7 nm operations in

7680-558: The two companies' vision for Advanced Micro Computers diverged, AMD bought out Siemens' stake in the American division in 1979. AMD closed Advanced Micro Computers in late 1981 after switching focus to manufacturing second-source Intel x86 microprocessors. Total sales in fiscal year 1978 topped $ 100 million, and in 1979, AMD debuted on the New York Stock Exchange . In 1979, production also began on AMD's new semiconductor fabrication plant in Austin, Texas ;

7776-509: The world's first 512K EPROM in 1984. That year, AMD was listed in the book The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America , and later made the Fortune 500 list for the first time in 1985. By mid-1985, the microchip market experienced a severe downturn, mainly due to long-term aggressive trade practices ( dumping ) from Japan, but also due to a crowded and non-innovative chip market in

7872-601: Was GlobalFoundries' ASIC Solutions division, which had been a part of IBM 's semiconductor manufacturing business. On 1 February 2019 GlobalFoundries announced the $ 236 million sale of its Fab 3E in Tampines, Singapore, to Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) as part of their plan to exit the MEMS business by 31 December 2019. On April 22, 2019, GlobalFoundries announced the $ 430 million sale of their Fab 10 in East Fishkill, New York, to ON Semiconductor . GlobalFoundries has received $ 100 million and will receive $ 330 million at

7968-436: Was a clean-sheet design, not a development of earlier processors. The core was specifically aimed at 10–125 W TDP computing products. AMD claimed dramatic performance-per-watt efficiency improvements in high-performance computing (HPC) applications with Bulldozer cores. While hopes were high that Bulldozer would bring AMD to be performance-competitive with Intel once more, most benchmarks were disappointing. In some cases

8064-425: Was a reference to Intel's hegemony over the market, i.e., an anthropomorphization of them as Superman. The number "5" was a reference to the fifth generation of x86 processors; rival Intel had previously introduced its line of fifth-generation x86 processors as Pentium because the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office had ruled that mere numbers could not be trademarked. In 1996, AMD purchased NexGen , specifically for

8160-511: Was a second source for Intel MOS / LSI circuits by 1973, with products such as Am14/1506 and Am14/1507, dual 100-bit dynamic shift registers. By 1975, AMD was producing 212 products – of which 49 were proprietary, including the Am9102 (a static N-channel 1024-bit RAM) and three low-power Schottky MSI circuits: Am25LS07, Am25LS08, and Am25LS09. Intel had created the first microprocessor , its 4-bit 4004 , in 1971. By 1975, AMD entered

8256-433: Was acquiring Xilinx , one of the market leaders in field programmable gate arrays and complex programmable logic devices (FPGAs and CPLDs) in an all-stock transaction. The acquisition was completed in February 2022, with an estimated acquisition price of $ 50 billion. In October 2023, AMD acquired an open-source AI software provider, Nod.ai, to bolster its AI software ecosystem. In January 2024, AMD announced it

8352-584: Was announced to integrate a CPU and GPU together on some of AMD's microprocessors, including a built in PCI Express link to accommodate separate PCI Express peripherals, eliminating the northbridge chip from the motherboard. The initiative intended to move some of the processing originally done on the CPU (e.g. floating-point unit operations) to the GPU, which is better optimized for some calculations. The Fusion

8448-530: Was discontinuing the production of all complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs) acquired through Xilinx. In March 2024, a rally in semiconductor stocks pushed AMD's valuation above $ 300B for the first time. In July 2024 AMD announced that it would acquire the Finnish-based artificial intelligence startup company Silo AI in a $ 665 million all-cash deal in an attempt to better compete with AI chip market leader Nvidia . In February 1982, AMD signed

8544-431: Was formally incorporated by Jerry Sanders , along with seven of his colleagues from Fairchild Semiconductor , on May 1, 1969. Sanders, an electrical engineer who was the director of marketing at Fairchild, had, like many Fairchild executives, grown frustrated with the increasing lack of support, opportunity, and flexibility within the company. He later decided to leave to start his own semiconductor company, following

8640-534: Was incorporated into a product for desktop PCs, branded Athlon 64 . On April 21, 2005, AMD released the first dual-core Opteron , an x86-based server CPU. A month later, it released the Athlon 64 X2 , the first desktop-based dual-core processor family. In May 2007, AMD abandoned the string "64" in its dual-core desktop product branding, becoming Athlon X2, downplaying the significance of 64-bit computing in its processors. Further updates involved improvements to

8736-575: Was later renamed the AMD APU (Accelerated Processing Unit). Llano was AMD's first APU built for laptops. Llano was the second APU released, targeted at the mainstream market. It incorporated a CPU and GPU on the same die, as well as northbridge functions, and used " Socket FM1 " with DDR3 memory. The CPU part of the processor was based on the Phenom II "Deneb" processor. AMD suffered an unexpected decrease in revenue based on production problems for

8832-410: Was officially announced. On 7 September 2009 ATIC announced it would acquire Chartered Semiconductor , based in Singapore, for S$ 2.5 billion (US$ 1.8 billion) and integrate Chartered Semiconductor into GlobalFoundries. On 13 January 2010 GlobalFoundries announced it had finalized the integration of Chartered Semiconductor . On 4 March 2012 AMD announced they divested their final 14 percent stake in

8928-664: Was previously known as IBM Building 323. It became part of GlobalFoundries operations with the acquisition of IBM Microelectronics . It currently manufactures technology down to the 14 nm node. In April 2019, it was announced that this fab has been sold to ON Semiconductor for $ 430m. The facility will be transferred over within three years. On February 10, 2023, Onsemi successfully completed its acquisition of GF's 300 mm East Fishkill, New York site and fabrication facility. All 200 mm fabs except Fab 9 are located in Singapore , and originally owned by Chartered Semiconductor . Fab 2, located in Woodlands, Singapore. This fab

9024-430: Was reviewing the complaints filed, but are confident that the allegations are baseless and will vigorously defend its proprietary technology. On 1 October 2019 TSMC filed patent infringement lawsuits against GlobalFoundries in the US, Germany and Singapore. TSMC claimed GlobalFoundries' 12 nm, 14 nm, 22 nm, 28 nm and 40 nm nodes have infringed on 25 of its patents. On 29 October 2019 TSMC and GlobalFoundries announced

9120-706: Was succeeded by Lisa Su , a key lieutenant who had been chief operating officer since June. On October 16, 2014, AMD announced a new restructuring plan along with its Q3 results. Effective July 1, 2014, AMD reorganized into two business groups: Computing and Graphics, which primarily includes desktop and notebook processors and chipsets, discrete GPUs, and professional graphics; and Enterprise, Embedded, and Semi-Custom, which primarily includes server and embedded processors, dense servers, semi-custom SoC products (including solutions for gaming consoles ), engineering services, and royalties. As part of this restructuring, AMD announced that 7% of its global workforce would be laid off by

9216-446: Was transferring its global headquarters from Santa Clara, California to its Malta, New York campus (home to Fab 8). In August 2022 Google expanded its open-source chip design and manufacturing efforts by partnering with GlobalFoundries to develop an open-source process design kit (PDK) based on the foundry's 180 nm node. In October 31, Google announced they would sponsor no-cost OpenMPW ( multi-project wafer ) shuttle runs for it in

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