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What GlobalFoundries Does & How It Makes Money (GFS)

Updated October 2026 · reflects GlobalFoundries's latest reported financials

Contract chipmaker manufacturing semiconductor wafers for other companies. It makes money by fabricating semiconductor wafers to customers' designs and charging for this manufacturing service and the process technologies it offers.

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How GlobalFoundries makes money

It makes money by fabricating semiconductor wafers to customers' designs and charging for this manufacturing service and the process technologies it offers.

What GlobalFoundries does

GLOBALFOUNDRIES is a semiconductor foundry, meaning it manufactures chips designed by other companies. It focuses on mainstream wafer fabrication technologies and serves customers in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and other international markets. The chips it produces include microprocessors, mobile application and baseband processors, network processors, RF modems, microcontrollers, and power management units. The company is also expanding into quantum technology. It has a strategic partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, which uses AI and advanced computing to speed up scientific discovery, and another with Xanadu Quantum Technologies to scale up quantum manufacturing to utility scale. It was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in Malta, New York.

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What is GlobalFoundries worth?

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