Globalfoundries to Build a Chengdu Fab

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Press release: Expands to Meet Worldwide Customer Demand; Company invests for capacity growth in the United States, Germany, China and Singapore. GlobalFoundries, Feb 9, 2017.
http://globalfoundries.com/newsr ... ide-customer-demand

Quote:

(a) "In the United States, GF plans to expand 14nm FinFET capacity by an additional 20 percent at its Fab 8 facility in New York, with the new production capabilities to come online in the beginning of 2018. * * *

(b) "In China, GF and the Chengdu municipality have formed a partnership to build a fab in Chengdu. The partners plan to establish a 300mm fab to support the growth of the Chinese semiconductor market and to meet accelerating global customer demand for 22FDX. The fab will begin production of mainstream process technologies in 2018 and then focus on manufacturing GF's commercially available 22FDX process technology, with volume production expected to start in 2019.

"In Singapore, GF will increase 40nm capacity at its 300mm fab by 35 percent * * *

My comment:
(a) Quotation (a) indicates that the most advanced in GF is 14 nm, which is not in dispute. The same also cryptically  talks about "new production capabilities." Does that hint at 10 or 7 nm?
(b) GF does 40 nm in Singapore!

New York Times tomorrow will publish a report on this subject, by Paul Mozur, that will say
(i) GF refuses to disclose how much it will spend building the Chengdu fab, but
(ii) that Chengdu's government websites say "$10 billion."

The entire report does NOT mention what nm the Chengdu fab will be.

So it is entirely possible that the GF fab is similar to Intel's Dalian plant (which may or may not be a fab; I simply do not know what it has been doing), which is not a significant factor in semiconductor arena.