foundry
noun
found·ry
ˈfau̇n-drē 
plural foundries
1
: an establishment where founding is carried on
2
: the act, process, or art of casting metals
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However, Wei said TSMC would revise its expectations for semiconductor market growth (minus memory chips) down for 2024, and cut his growth predictions for foundries, Bloomberg reported.
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Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2024
Companies designing cutting-edge AI chips, such as Nvidia and Intel, rely on foundries with extremely specialized tools to build their designs—and for them, TSMC is the only game in town.
—Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
The company announced that Intel's foundries would expand in ways unheard of in the past.
—Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
The Biden administration has promised tens of billions of dollars to support construction of U.S. chip foundries and reduce reliance on Asian suppliers, which Washington sees as a security weakness.
—Will Weissert, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024
All of the world’s most advanced foundries—the factories that produce semiconductors—currently use ASM Lithography’s technology, including Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC), Samsung, and Intel.
—Will Daniel, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2024
Gelsinger says these latest numbers are partially the result of Intel’s past mistakes catching up with its foundry business, which caused the chipmaker to outsource about 30 percent of all its wafer production to other foundries, like TSMC, one of Intel’s biggest competitors currently.
—Joanna Nelius, The Verge, 2 Apr. 2024
The processor maker is moving from being a company that produces only its own chips to becoming a foundry, making chips for others and considering its own product teams as just another customer.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Feb. 2024
General Manager Tony Workman said the foundry typically keeps molds for up to two years, but as luck would have it, Parson’s mold was still in storage.
—Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 2 Feb. 2024
Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2024
Companies designing cutting-edge AI chips, such as Nvidia and Intel, rely on foundries with extremely specialized tools to build their designs—and for them, TSMC is the only game in town.
—Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
The company announced that Intel's foundries would expand in ways unheard of in the past.
—Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
The Biden administration has promised tens of billions of dollars to support construction of U.S. chip foundries and reduce reliance on Asian suppliers, which Washington sees as a security weakness.
—Will Weissert, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024
All of the world’s most advanced foundries—the factories that produce semiconductors—currently use ASM Lithography’s technology, including Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC), Samsung, and Intel.
—Will Daniel, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2024
Gelsinger says these latest numbers are partially the result of Intel’s past mistakes catching up with its foundry business, which caused the chipmaker to outsource about 30 percent of all its wafer production to other foundries, like TSMC, one of Intel’s biggest competitors currently.
—Joanna Nelius, The Verge, 2 Apr. 2024
The processor maker is moving from being a company that produces only its own chips to becoming a foundry, making chips for others and considering its own product teams as just another customer.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Feb. 2024
General Manager Tony Workman said the foundry typically keeps molds for up to two years, but as luck would have it, Parson’s mold was still in storage.
—Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 2 Feb. 2024
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“Foundry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foundry. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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