GlobalFoundries, the Abu Dhabi-owned global leader in feature-rich semiconductor manufacturing, announced that it has agreed to amend its Wafer Supply Agreement (WSA) with AMD to increase the volume of chips GF will supply as well as extend the terms of the agreement to secure supply through 2025.
The agreement also expands the breadth of the partnership, including supply assurance for AMD chips serving the datacenter, personal computing, embedded, and other growth markets.
GlobalFoundries has been manufacturing high-performance chips for AMD for more than 12 years, and this new agreement extends this long-standing partnership to ensure supply for AMD’s growing business. With this agreement, AMD now expects to purchase approximately $2.1 billion of wafers from GF between 2022 and 2025.
“We have been working closely with our customers for more than a year to help address the ongoing supply-demand imbalance in our industry,” said Tom Caulfield, CEO, GlobalFoundries. “Our amended agreement with AMD is a prime example of our customers’ desire and willingness to secure long-term supply. This agreement not only increases the volume of chips we will be producing for AMD, but it also secures and extends their supply through 2025.”
The global demand for semiconductors is growing at an unprecedented rate, and GlobalFoundries is responding to this growth through a series of strategic long-term agreements with existing and new customers and simultaneously expanding global capacity to meet customer demand.
In a recent interview with CNBC, Mubadala CEO Khaldoon Al Mubarak, said the semiconductor industry is on track to record exponential growth over the next decade and that chipmakers are poised to play a “crucial” role in the global economy.
“It took 50 years for the semiconductor business to turn into a half a trillion-dollar business. It’s going to take probably eight to 10 years to double. And it’s going to double right after that, probably in four to five years,” Al Mubarak said in an exclusive interview to CNBC.
“So, we take that as one very important data point. You combine that with another very relevant data point … there’s [only] five foundry businesses, global foundry businesses, four of which are in Asia,” he added.
“One of which, GlobalFoundries has, I think, the unique differentiated platform of being in the United States, in Europe, and in Asia.”
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