GlobalFoundries has acquired Advanced Micro Foundry, a Singapore-based silicon photonics specialist, in a move aimed at expanding its photonics technology portfolio, production capacity and regional research and development footprint.
In a statement released Monday, GlobalFoundries said the addition of AMF’s manufacturing facilities, intellectual property and workforce will solidify its position as the world’s largest pure-play silicon photonics foundry by revenue. The acquisition supports growing demand for long-haul optical communications, high-performance computing, LiDAR and sensing applications built on AMF’s 200mm platform.
“Silicon photonics technology is essential for AI infrastructure. As data moves faster and workloads grow more complex, the ability to move information with greater speed, precision and power efficiency is now fundamental to AI data centers and advanced telecom networks. Acquiring AMF enables GF to deliver an expanded and differentiated decade-long roadmap for pluggable transceivers and co-packaged optics, while accelerating growth of photonics into adjacent markets such as automotive and quantum computing,” GlobalFoundries CEO Tim Breen said in the statement.
Following the acquisition, GlobalFoundries will also establish a silicon photonics research and development center of excellence to collaborate with Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research and advance GF’s photonics platform, supporting delivery of data transfer solutions for customers worldwide.
