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Siemens and GlobalFoundries have formed a new strategic collaboration to combine complementary AI-driven capabilities that enhance semiconductor manufacturing and adjacent advanced industries, targeting gains in efficiency, security and reliability. Under a new memorandum of understanding, the companies will focus on fab automation, electrification, and digital solutions and software spanning chip development through product lifecycle management.
A central element of the collaboration is the deployment of AI-enabled software, sensors and real-time control systems in fab automation to address rising demand for reliable semiconductors and autonomous platforms. By leveraging centralized automation and predictive maintenance, Siemens and GF aim to increase equipment availability and operational efficiency in chip production, with solutions designed to scale across other advanced industries. The partners intend to develop and deploy these capabilities within their own operations to deliver enhanced offerings.
The expanded relationship comes amid unprecedented demand for essential semiconductors and autonomous platforms in artificial intelligence, defense, energy and connectivity. By teaming up, Siemens and GF plan to accelerate growth, strengthen security and reliability, and extend their impact across the ecosystem.
“Our economy runs on Silicon—one wafer at a time. Chips are critical for applications like robotics or connectivity and for bringing AI into the physical world and industry. We are collaborating to make global semiconductor supply chains more resilient and to enable efficient localized manufacturing around the world,” said Cedrik Neike, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO Digital Industries.
“Secure, locally manufactured semiconductors are at the core of the AI transition—from cloud to the physical world, bringing intelligence into devices we use every day and enabling applications we couldn’t imagine a few years ago,” said Tim Breen, CEO of GlobalFoundries. “Our unique collaboration with Siemens allows us to go faster—to build the technologies that make this possible—differentiated, energy-efficient, connected and secure chips across a wide range of next-generation applications.”
Siemens brings a comprehensive portfolio of industrial, energy and building automation and digitalization technologies, including advanced software for chip design and manufacturing, fab automation and product lifecycle management. Using these solutions, the companies will enable collaboration across the semiconductor lifecycle and deliver high-performance, reliable devices at scale.
GF, together with MIPS, a GF company and global leader in RISC-V processor IP, contributes process technology and design capabilities to accelerate tailored solutions that support Siemens’ goal of enabling autonomous platforms and physical AI chips at scale. The publicly listed U.S. company operates manufacturing facilities in the USA, Asia and Europe, including Europe’s largest semiconductor production site in Dresden with approximately 3,000 employees.
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