Little more on GlobalFoundries:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon-takes-foreign-chips-partner-1465159332

Pentagon Hires Foreign Chips Supplier

Globalfoundries, owned by Abu Dhabi, will make microchips for U.S. jets and spy satellites

By Doug Cameron

June 5, 2016 4:42 p.m. ET

The Pentagon has decided to rely on an Abu Dhabi-owned company to supply the most advanced microchips used in U.S. spy satellites, missiles and combat jets.

A senior U.S. Defense Department official said in an interview that the Pentagon has reached a seven-year agreement with Globalfoundries Inc., one of the big four global chip makers, to supply the microchips.

https://semiengineering.com/dod-scratches-its-head-over-foundry-security/

Look at this one^^^^^

DoD Scratches Its Head Over Foundry Security

Counterfeiting continues to grow in the semiconductor supply chain, but now several programs in the military and commercial worlds intend to stamp it out.

June 25th, 2015 - By: Brian Bailey

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When the GlobalFoundries deal with IBM to acquire its foundries closes, as it is slated to sometime during 2015, the U.S. Department of Defense has a small problem on its hands. Military programs no longer will have access to a trusted fab to manufacture semiconductors. How do you ensure that the foundry did not modify or alter your design, add backdoor access or implement a remote control mechanism?

GlobalFoundries is based in the United Arab Emirates, Samsung is based in South Korea, and TSMC is based in Taiwan. So aside from Intel, there are no other advanced digital fabs owned by U.S.-based companies with the capabilities to make the kinds of devices used by the military. You can bet your tax dollars there are a lot of secret discussions going on to make sure military programs are not put at risk.

There are also several slightly more public programs that are attempting to secure the supply chain for semiconductors so that issues such as theft, counterfeiting and relabeling of parts become a lot easier to detect than they are today.

How big is this issue? While it is never possible to fully enumerate a criminal business, Government hearings in 2011 estimated that 15% of all spare and replacements part purchased by military programs were counterfeit. The estimated total costs of counterfeits was $7.5B a year.

At DAC, a SKY talk was provided by Saverio Fazzari from Booz Allen, who is an advisor to several DARPA programs. He provided an overview of the electronic threat space and some of the ideas DARPA is developing to mitigate them.

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(This dig is making the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I don't know anything about all this chip-speak, but this is creeping me out. When it mentioned DARPA and Booz Allen, man, this is something else.)

TRUST attempted to detect logic insertions without performing highly destructive measures, and IRIS was a set of capabilities for discovering reliability compromises. A new program called SHIELD (Supply Chain Hardware Integrity for Electronics Defense), launched in January of 2015 at an initial cost of more than $23 million, is learning from these programs and hopes to add the ability to store a private key on a chip that would be difficult to reverse engineer, and would destroy the part if reverse engineering is attempted.

The “dielet” will have no electrical connection to the host circuitry, instead operating in a completely standalone mode using scavenged power. After a device has been scanned, an appliance will upload a serial number to a central, industry-owned server. The server will then send an unencrypted challenge to the dielet, which will send back an encrypted answer and data from passive sensors, such as light exposure that could indicate tampering. The program is expected to yield results by mid-2016.

Another part of the program hopes to make it clear where a part was manufactured using signatures from fabs that are associated with their tools, recipes, sequences and other idiosyncrasies. When a counterfeit part is found, it then can be traced to its place of origin.

Other programs, such as those initiated by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), have been attempting to educate the industry about the importance of securing the supply chain and dealing only with reputable, factory authorized agents.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) also are jointly providing funding to universities for research that will lead to Secure, Trustworthy, Assured and Resilient Semiconductors and Systems (STARSS).

It is clear that everyone is taking this problem seriously and that the industry needs to do something to slow the rapid increase in the counterfeit semiconductor market. Hopefully, the manufacturing industry is smarter than the counterfeiters, unlike in the software security industry where the hackers always seem to be a little ahead of the countermeasures.

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Pretty easy to see through the mosquito thing.

What company will magically come up with a vaccine to prevent Zika? Bill Gates is all over the malaria angle, but science handled malaria decades ago.

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https://www.electronicdesign.com/industrial-automation/globalfoundries-replaces-chief-executive-who-may-not-go-far

GlobalFoundries Replaces Chief Executive, Who May Not Go Far

James Morra | Mar 13, 2018

GlobalFoundries, the second largest contract chip maker in the world, said that it had replaced chief executive Sanjay Jha with Thomas Caulfield, senior vice president and general manager of its advanced production plant in upstate New York, as the company eyes a larger share of the $57 billion foundry market.

Caulfield was hired and charged with the Fab 8 plant shortly after Jha became chief executive officer in 2014. He was tasked with converting it from 28-nanometer to 14-nanometer production, which is used to manufacture the most advanced processors in the industry today. Before his promotion, he was also revamping the factory to handle the next generation of 7nm technology.

Like rivals, the company plans to introduce extreme ultraviolet lithography – also known as EUV – to lower the cost and reduce the number of steps in its 7nm process. It has installed a single EUV system in Fab 8 and cleared cleanroom space for three more machines, according to multiple reports. Each system costs over $100 million.

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This company is gigantic. The amount of money involved is even more gigantic. Extreme ultraviolet lithography? $100 million? Huh?

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GlobalFoundries is owned by Mubadala:

https://www.mubadala.com/en/what-we-do/semiconductors/globalfoundries

Check out what else Mubadala does:

What we do

Aerospace

Capital Investments

Defense Services

Healthcare

Information & Communications Technology

Metals & Mining

Real Estate & Infrastructure

Petroleum & Petrochemicals

Renewables

Semiconductors

Utilities

Incepted in 2009 through an AMD spinoff, Mubadala acquired its first Fab in Dresden, Germany and established GLOBALFOUNDRIES aiming to create world-class facilities and lead the semiconductor industry.

The company subsequently expanded with the acquisition of Singapore-based Chartered and US-based IBM Microelectronics.

Today, GLOBALFOUNDRIES operates in five manufacturing centers on three continents: Malta, East Fishkill and Burlington in the US, Dresden in Germany and Singapore. Currently, GLOBALFOUNDRIES is accelerating its global footprint through a strategic partnership with Chengdu, China with the development of a new world-class 300mm fab.

These facilities enable GLOBALFOUNDRIES to serve a growing portfolio of more than 250 global customers, including many of the world’s largest semiconductor companies. GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ adoption of innovative technology methods puts it at the forefront of many market segments. The company has one of the largest patent portfolios in the industry, with approximately 25,000 patents and applications.

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Twenty-five thousand patents. Twenty-five thousand.

Check out Mubadala's board of directors:

https://www.mubadala.com/en/who-we-are/board-of-directors

Abu Dhabi, UAE

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Three locations in the US

Dresden, Germany and Singapore

CHINA CHINA CHINA

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(squints at Q)