GlobalFoundries has announced FDX1. FD-SOI platform name used by GlobalFoundriesFDX is GlobalFoundries' FD-SOI technology family for differentiated low-power designs.2. fully depleted silicon-on-insulator3. Fully Depleted eXtremeFDX denotes an FD-SOI variant with a fully depleted channel, offering low power consumption and good electrostatic control. Fusion, a new FD-SOIFully Depleted Silicon-On-InsulatorA transistor platform that uses a thin buried oxide to improve electrostatic control and reduce power consumption. platform designed for Physical AIartificial intelligence and intended to become the company’s most advanced FD-SOIFully Depleted Silicon-On-InsulatorA transistor platform that uses a thin buried oxide to improve electrostatic control and reduce power consumption. technology. Manufacturing is planned to begin in 2028 at GF’s Dresden facility, with demonstrator silicon targeted for early customer evaluation in early 2027 and an initial PDKprocess design kitA PDK provides the technology files and design rules needed to design chips for a specific process. release in mid-2027.
The first generation is expected to deliver seven-nanometer class digital performance and more than 2x density improvement over first-generation FDX1. FD-SOI platform name used by GlobalFoundriesFDX is GlobalFoundries' FD-SOI technology family for differentiated low-power designs.2. fully depleted silicon-on-insulator3. Fully Depleted eXtremeFDX denotes an FD-SOI variant with a fully depleted channel, offering low power consumption and good electrostatic control. technology. The platform combines advanced substrate engineering, front-end transistor innovation and back-end interconnect and integration capabilities with RF1. radio frequencyHigh-frequency electromagnetic oscillations used, for example, to excite plasmas.2. resonance frequencyQuantity describing a signal’s frequency, bandwidth, spectral behavior or transmission rate. performance up to 0.5 THzterahertzTHz is a frequency unit equal to one trillion hertz. ft/fmax, plus analog and mixed-signal features, low-leakage operation, in-memory computing, embedded non-volatile memory and dense logic.
GF positions FDX1. FD-SOI platform name used by GlobalFoundriesFDX is GlobalFoundries' FD-SOI technology family for differentiated low-power designs.2. fully depleted silicon-on-insulator3. Fully Depleted eXtremeFDX denotes an FD-SOI variant with a fully depleted channel, offering low power consumption and good electrostatic control. Fusion as a platform for STACSense, Think, Act, CommunicateSTAC describes edge workloads that combine sensing, processing, action and connectivity. workloads, meaning systems that sense, think, act and communicate at the edge. The company says the technology is being developed to reduce system complexity, latency and power consumption while supporting application requirements that extend beyond cloud-centric AIartificial intelligence.
The roadmap is also tied to GF’s broader European manufacturing footprint and to expansion efforts in Dresden supported under the European Chips Act. GF says the platform is aimed at automotive, consumer and industrial applications including edge inference, robotics, industrial automation, autonomous systems, sensor-fusion architectures and intelligent connected devices.
GF is working with customers on early development and evaluation, and the company points to its design enablement ecosystem, including MIPS1. Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline StagesMIPS is a processor architecture2. million instructions per secondMIPS is part of the development portfolio for processor IP and ARC1. antireflective coatingThin coating used to reduce unwanted reflections at a surface.2. Argonaut RISC CoreARC is a processor IP family used for configurable embedded designs. processor IP1. image placement2. Internet protocolInterface or communications concept for transmitting data between devices and systems.3. Intellectual PropertyIP denotes licensable semiconductor design blocks or technology elements., RISC-Vreduced instruction set computer fiveRISC-V is an open instruction set architecture used for processor design. ISA1. Instrumentation Society of America2. instruction set architectureAn ISA defines the machine-level instructions a processor supports. support and application-specific processor design capabilities. The platform is also being developed in the context of future automotive and industrial systems that combine AIartificial intelligence processing, sensing, real-time control and secure connectivity.