The company Globalfroundrossdedicated to the manufacture of chips, He has bought a company that complements its main activity. This is MIPSspecialized in design and creation of semiconductors. It is unknown how much Globalfoundries has paid for it, although it is confirmed that MIPS will continue to function as an independent subsidiary within Globalfoundries, and therefore service to the clients they already have, and those who can add in the future.
Therefore, MIPS will continue to operate with freedom within its business and experience area, which in recent years has been related to the development of processors design based on RISC-V architecture, in addition to licenseing their designs to companies that need chips designed for concrete purposes, or who want to manufacture custom chips. Having its own chips design subsidiary makes Globalfoundries a broader supply of products and services.
Also, as he has stated su CEO, Niels Anderskávthat the company will expand «Their capacities to offer customers more flexible solutions, in line with our differentiated process technologies and with the first level manufacturing, with the aim of helping them in the development of the best products. This acquisition will involve a great step forward to expand the limits of efficiency and performance in a wide range of applications in the automotive, industry and infrastructure sectors of data centers«.
As to Sameer Wasson, executive director of MIPShe pointed out that «Be part of Globalfoundries marks the beginning of a new and bold stage for MIPS. The proven GF trajectory in the supply of differentiated technologies through a global and safe manufacturing network will improve our ability to accelerate innovation and expand our solutions, which will allow us to open new opportunities in the field of physical AI and generate even greater value for our clients«.
The Globalfoundries movement comes after MIPS announced not long ago a range of processors known as Atlas, designed for real -time process of workloads, as well as for the execution of the devices in the Edge. In addition, it offers a platform, which you have called Atlas Explorer, which allows you to optimize various elements in chips design. Globalfoundries has opted to incorporate them into their product portfolio, in addition to making a committed commitment to AI and RISC-V architecture.
If the plans of both parties come according to their forecasts, The purchase agreement will be closed throughout this second half of 2025. Then we will have to wait to see how to use Globalfoundries to MIPS to compete, for example, with ARM, which does not have the advantage of having a chips manufacturer as owner.
