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foundry

[foun-dree] / ˈfaʊn dri /
NOUN
plant
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Looking forward he anticipates the chip shortage broadening out to foundry — the actual manufacturing of chips.

From MarketWatch Jul. 7, 2026

A lapsed Quaker and former foundry owner from Rhode Island with little previous military experience, Greene had become Washington’s most trusted lieutenant.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

“We see quantum computing as the next technology. We’re going to manufacture quantum computers and Anderon is our foundry to scale that,” Gambetta told Barron’s.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

IBM is forming Anderon, a new independent subsidiary and foundry to produce silicon wafers for quantum-computing processors.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 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

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

Meanwhile, chip manufacturers would be prioritized even if there is a helium shortage because semiconductor foundries are likely to be among the least price sensitive major use cases, they add.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 16, 2026

"I don't think it would have happened from any area other than Aston with all of those foundries and factories and the smelts and the bomb sites," he adds.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2025

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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