GlobalFoundries [SEP] parent company
GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries (also known as GloFo) is an American semiconductor foundry headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States. GlobalFoundries was created by the divestiture of the manufacturing arm of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on March 2, 2009, expanded through the acquisition of Chartered Semiconductor on January 23, 2010, and further expanded through the acquisition of IBM Microelectronics on July 1, 2015. The Emirate of Abu Dhabi is the owner of the company through its subsidiary Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC). On March 4
and an addition). Thus each of the 48 processors can perform 10 floating-point operations per cycle. All processors in a SIMD group execute the same instruction, so in total up to three instruction threads can be simultaneously under execution.
- 500 MHz parent GPU on 90 nm, 65 nm (since 2008) TSMC process or 45nm GlobalFoundries process (since 2010, with CPU on same die) of total 232 million transistors
- 48 vector units floating-point vector processors for shader execution, divided