GlobalFoundries currently offers the most advanced silicon photonics foundry services with their 90 Wave Guide (WG) technology. This technology is actively used within datacenter interconnects, 5G remote radio heads, and telecom. Most of the volume is using 1310nm wavelength light for inside the datacenter and long range at 1550nm wavelength light. They are rapidly seeing advances in other areas such as photonic computing, ToF sensors, Lidar, and aeronautics.......
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While GlobalFoundries has given up on chasing Moore’s law, they have not stopped being a leading-edge foundry. They continue to push the bleeding edge of technology in many other ways. While others focus on generational density and power improvements in computing with electrons in traditional logic process technologies while ignoring, GlobalFoundries is attacking industry wide scaling problems. Their fully depleted silicon on insulator and gallium nitride on silicon technologies are at the forefront of high efficiency and performance radio technologies with the capabilities to drive higher performance and tolerate higher heat and power requirements. Their silicon photonics technologies are the start of a paradigm shift by changing the core element of computers and wired communications from electrons to photons. Their 3D and heterogenous integration expertise allow the combination normal logic, low power FDX, radio optimized, photonics, InP, and SiN technologies to all be integrated into a single innovative solution that utilizes the best technologies for application demands. Due to this advanced technology, Global Foundries is a leading-edge foundry that beats out others such as TSMC, Intel, and Samsung.
