Battle of the Business Models | Digits to Dollars
Global Foundries’s future lays in bringing the fabless business model to the analog industry. The transition to 300mm wafers could prove a big catalyst for that.
Global Foundries is one of those confounding businesses that seem to pop up every so often in technology. Everyone agrees they are critical to the supply chain, but no one is terribly excited about supporting them or investing in them. The US has become incredibly insecure about securing its supply chain for electronics. From a policy perspective this make Global Foundries with its domestic plants and years of experience producing chips, a critical vendor. But from a commercial perspective, their lack of leading manufacturing processes relegates them into a lower tier. All too often in these s
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