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foundry

[faun-dree] / ˈfaʊn dri /
NOUN
plant
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With Samsung Electronics, AMD has been discussing not just chip supplies but the possibility of foundry cooperation, using Samsung’s most advanced process technology, according to reports.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

"You can save so much energy," says Callum Littlejohns, deputy director of silicon photonics foundry Cornerstone Labs.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

In mid-August, Morgan Stanley published a report saying that SpaceX was planning such a foundry in Bastrop, Texas, based on the company’s job postings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The company's HBM business is also "driving a significantly positive impact on their foundry business as well", MS Hwang, an analyst at investment firm Counterpoint, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

All kinds of professions now crowded in together, foundry workers and lawyers, maids and carpenters, doctors and hoodlums, but most people, this being 1932, were unemployed.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

"Because SiC is already used globally in electric vehicles and power grids, we can leverage existing industrial foundries to manufacture these cryogenic chips on 300-mm wafers."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026

Historically, suburbs such as Hodge Hill, Shard End and Castle Bromwich were built around a strong manufacturing base, but the long-term decline of factories and foundries has reshaped the local economy.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

At the same time, leading-edge chip making will continue to face supply constraints due to capital requirements and the time needed to develop foundries, they said.

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

The U.S. push to boost manufacturing, partly by building new foundries, is vital as other countries race to be the first to broadly commercialize the technology.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

Such foundries were not unknown to the Inka, but Andean societies vastly preferred to hammer metal into thin sheets, form the sheets around molds, and solder the results.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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