Cirrus Logic has formed a partnership with GlobalFoundries to develop next-generation bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) and gallium nitride (GaN) parts. The collaboration centers on GlobalFoundries' New York and Vermont facilities, with manufacturing capability planned at the Malta, New York fab. The next-gen BCD technology enables chips to drive discrete high-voltage components for automotive, audio, and industrial applications and traces roots to STMicroelectronics' 1985 development. The arrangement helps customers avoid regulatory risks and potential tariffs related to foreign technology imports. Cirrus Logic and GlobalFoundries aim to accelerate mixed-signal chip manufacturing and strengthen domestic semiconductor supply chains. Company executives said the deal deepens their longstanding relationship and bolsters national competitiveness.
Key to the deal is the promise that these next-gen BCD parts will be "capable of being manufactured" at GlobalFoundries' facility in Malta, New York. This would allow customers to sidestep the Trump administration's increasing focus on foreign technology imports, which have seen threats of 100 percent tariffs and even a call for Intel boss Lip-Bu Tan to step down from the company.
Cirrus Logic designs chips but doesn't make them. GlobalFoundries makes chips but, prior to its acquisition of MIPS last month, doesn't typically design them. The partnership will see the two collaborating on the development and commercialization of a next-generation BCD technology. This was first developed by STMicroelectronics in 1985 and allows chips to drive discrete high-voltage components for applications in the automotive, audio, and industrial markets.
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