GlobalFoundries company has decided to build on the U.S. one of the largest research centers in the United States. Construction will begin soon and be completed by the end of 2014. The amount of investment is $ 2 billion, which increase the total volume of investments in the range of Fab 8 to $ 8 billion !
Note, in laboratories and workshops scientific complex GlobalFoundries will employ 1,000 professionals, which is only half of the production staff . It is clear that the factory are automated today .
Corporate Research Center GlobalFoundries will cover the entire spectrum of technological issues in semiconductor manufacturing, from the creation of reference, technical processes to the development of interconnect and packaging crystals. In other words, GlobalFoundries wants to go to a full self-service. This is an interesting trend. While the semiconductor industry are many, they form alliances for joint development of technical processes. Such unions were in Europe, U.S. and Japan.
GlobalFoundries with 28 nm process or not, it does not prevent it to report on progress in the development of these technical processes - to 20-nm and 14 nm using FinFET-transistors.