# GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.

Summary updated: 2026-09-28T12:14:59.518452Z
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## Overview

GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. is a semiconductor foundry that manufactures chips for other companies. Its business centers on differentiated chip technologies and the production of semiconductor wafers, alongside engineering and related services. Its technologies serve automotive, smart mobile device, home and industrial IoT, and communications infrastructure and data-center markets. The company describes its focus as delivering essential chip technologies that enable connected, secure and intelligent systems; this expresses its purpose rather than a separately stated formal mission. [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154391170)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154391180)[3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154391185)[4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154391289)

Founded in 2009, GLOBALFOUNDRIES has manufacturing sites in New York, Vermont, Germany and Singapore. It reported $6.791 billion in revenue for 2025 and employed approximately 14,000 people worldwide at year-end. [5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154391165)[6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154391176)[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154392222)[8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154391525)
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## Products & services

GLOBALFOUNDRIES manufactures semiconductor wafers using process platforms for digital logic, radio-frequency (RF) circuits, power management, embedded memory and optical connectivity. Its offerings include FinFET logic; FDX fully depleted silicon-on-insulator technology for ultra-low-power designs; RF-SOI and silicon-germanium technologies for RF applications; BCD processes that combine bipolar, CMOS and high-voltage devices; gallium-nitride technologies for RF and power applications; and silicon photonics for optical links. Named offerings include 22FDX, 12LP and 12LP+, while its manufacturing portfolio includes 300 mm production of FDX, FinFET and silicon photonics technologies. [2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154391180)[9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T17811370)[10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T17811372)[11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P61786086)[12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P81969693)

The company’s principal service is volume fabrication and sale of finished wafers for customers’ chip designs. It also provides non-recurring engineering, photomasks, process qualification, wafer bumping, testing, packaging, and intellectual-property licensing. In 2025, wafer sales accounted for approximately 89% of revenue and non-wafer offerings for approximately 11%; the company does not report a revenue percentage for each technology platform. [4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154391289)[13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T17811430)
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## Geographic presence

GLOBALFOUNDRIES has four manufacturing sites: Malta, New York; Burlington, Vermont; Dresden, Germany; and Singapore. Its principal executive offices are in Malta, New York. It also has operations in India, Malaysia and Bulgaria that support engineering, design enablement, procurement, IT and other functions. [6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154391176)[14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154391164)[15](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154391233)

In 2025, revenue attributed by customer headquarters was $3.40 billion from the United States (50.0% of total revenue), $1.71 billion from Europe, the Middle East and Africa (25.2%), and $1.69 billion from other locations (24.8%). This is a measure of customer location, not where the products were manufactured; the company does not identify the countries within the “Other” category in this breakdown. [16](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154392397)[17](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T17811455) At year-end 2025, GLOBALFOUNDRIES reported approximately 14,000 employees, with 34% in North America, 22% in EMEA and 42% in Asia-Pacific. [8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154391525)
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## Business segments

GLOBALFOUNDRIES reports one operating and reportable segment: its semiconductor foundry business. The company also discloses revenue by end market, but these categories are not separate reportable segments. In 2025, Smart Mobile Devices accounted for approximately 39% of revenue, Automotive 21%, Home and Industrial IoT 18%, and Communications Infrastructure & Data Center 11%; non-wafer revenue made up the remaining 11%. [18](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154392396)[19](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154391195)

Smart Mobile Devices covers chips for smartphones, tablets and wearables, including connectivity, radio-frequency, sensing and power-management applications. Automotive encompasses electrification, safety, connectivity and in-vehicle systems. Home and Industrial IoT serves connected-home products, industrial automation and control, and energy-management applications. Communications Infrastructure & Data Center covers wireless and wireline networks, optical communications, satellite communications and data-center interconnects. [20](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154391189)[21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154391187)[22](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154391191)[23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154391193)
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## Company history

GLOBALFOUNDRIES was established in 2009 when a subsidiary of Mubadala acquired AMD’s semiconductor manufacturing operations in Dresden, Germany, and a planned fabrication site in Malta, New York. In 2010, it combined with Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, establishing the basis of its Singapore manufacturing operations. Its 2015 acquisition of IBM’s Microelectronics division added facilities in New York and Vermont and more than 2,000 engineers. [24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154395291)

Thomas Caulfield became president and chief executive officer in March 2018. Later that year, GLOBALFOUNDRIES shifted its strategy toward specialized, differentiated semiconductor manufacturing technologies. The company began trading on Nasdaq under the symbol GFS in October 2021, marking its transition to a publicly traded company. [25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154387047)[26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154395295)[27](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154395369)[28](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154386788)
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