GlobalFoundries has acquired Advanced Micro Foundry (AMF), a Singapore-based company specializing in silicon photonics.
This acquisition expands GlobalFoundries’ manufacturing capabilities and strengthens its technology portfolio for optical communications and AI-driven data infrastructure.
The acquisition brings AMF’s manufacturing facilities, intellectual property, and engineering teams under GlobalFoundries’ management, making GF the largest pure-play silicon photonics foundry by revenue.
AMF’s operations, based on a 200-mm platform with plans to expand to 300-mm production, add over 15 years of manufacturing expertise to GlobalFoundries’ existing capabilities in the United States.
GF said the acquisition addresses accelerating demand for photonics-based data transfer as copper interconnects reach physical limits in high-performance computing and AI datacenters. Silicon photonics enables faster and more energy-efficient data movement both within and between data centres, and GF aims to use the expanded platform to support long-haul optical communications, computing, LiDAR, sensing and emerging applications.
“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 datacenters and advanced telecom networks,” said Tim Breen, CEO of GF, in a press release. “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 is already expanding its silicon photonics production in New York, and adding AMF is expected to speed up growth in its Singapore operations. This will also allow customers to get supply from multiple locations.
As part of the acquisition, GF plans to set up a silicon photonics centre of excellence in Singapore. This new research hub will work with Singapore’s A*STAR to develop advanced materials and technologies, including systems capable of data-transfer speeds up to 400 Gbps.
AMF CEO Jagadish CV said that the two companies complement each other in technology and customer approach, and the combined company will be able to serve more markets and a wider range of customers.
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