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foundry

[foun-dree] / ˈfaʊn dri /
NOUN
plant
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Today, the company consists of two main businesses: its product segment, which designs and sells its own chips, mainly CPUs for personal computers; and its foundry, which manufactures chips in the U.S.,

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

Looking forward he anticipates the chip shortage broadening out to foundry — the actual manufacturing of chips.

From MarketWatch Jul. 7, 2026

Germany's foundry association BDG says costs associated with modernising the power grid are passed on to companies through higher network fees, which have quadrupled since 2011.

From Barron's Jul. 2, 2026

IBM IBM 4.03%increase; green up pointing triangle said last month it plans to form a new independent subsidiary called Anderon, a foundry to produce the silicon wafers needed to make quantum-computing processors.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

To fix a broken machine, which was forged out of cast iron at a foundry inside Camp 14, Shin and other repairmen had to haul it on their backs to a repair shop upstairs.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

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

Under the investment plan, the Nasdaq-listed company will tap the Taiwanese industry’s expertise in high-performance computing—from foundries to chip assembly and test providers, to scale its production.

From The Wall Street Journal May 21, 2026

Thanks to some daring industrial espionage, the steam engine finally got into American hands, and offered investors opportunities in mills, foundries, canals, and especially railroads.

From Barron's Jan. 13, 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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