- Siemens and GlobalFoundries partner to integrate AI into semiconductor manufacturing.
- Collaboration boosts automation, efficiency, security, and supply-chain resilience.
- Alliance targets advanced chips for AI, defense, energy, and connectivity sectors.
Siemens and GlobalFoundries (GF) have announced a strategic partnership to integrate artificial intelligence into semiconductor manufacturing, aiming to boost efficiency, security, and reliability in chip production and advanced industries.
Under a new memorandum of understanding, the collaboration leverages complementary AI capabilities, focusing on fab automation, electrification, digital solutions, and software spanning chip design to product lifecycle management. A core focus is deploying AI-enabled software, sensors, and real-time control systems for centralized automation and predictive maintenance. This approach seeks to enhance equipment availability, operational efficiency, and extend innovations to sectors such as AI, defense, energy, and connectivity.
The partnership addresses surging demand for reliable semiconductors powering autonomous platforms and physical AI applications. By combining expertise, the companies plan to develop and implement solutions in their operations, fostering resilient global supply chains and localized manufacturing.
“Our economy runs on Silicon – one wafer at a time. Chips are critical for applications such as robotics or connectivity and for bringing AI into the physical world and industry. We are collaborating to make global semiconductor supply chains more resilient and to enable efficient localized manufacturing around the world,” said Cedrik Neike, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO Digital Industries.
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“Secure, locally manufactured semiconductors are at the core of the AI transition – from cloud to the physical world, bringing intelligence into devices we use every day and enabling applications we couldn’t imagine a few years ago,” said Tim Breen, CEO of GlobalFoundries. “Our unique collaboration with Siemens allows us to go faster – to build the technologies that make this possible – differentiated, energy-efficient, connected and secure chips across a wide range of next-generation applications.”
Siemens contributes industrial automation, digitalization technologies, and software for chip design and lifecycle management. GlobalFoundries, with subsidiary MIPS specializing in RISC-V processor IP, provides advanced process technology and operates major facilities worldwide, including Europe's largest in Dresden. This alliance promises high-performance, scalable semiconductor solutions amid growing industry needs.