GLOBALFOUNDRIES, one of the world's top three dedicated silicon foundries, is forging a customized approach to outsourced semiconductor manufacturing by building lasting and collaborative partnerships with its customers. GLOBALFOUNDRIES' focus on enabling system-level technologies facilitates the convergence of communications, computing and consumer electronics. We operate with our customers' overall objectives in mind by providing complete solutions enabling them to deliver better, faster and cheaper products to market.
Technology expertise is key to success in our industry. At GLOBALFOUNDRIES we are helping to accelerate the technology convergence taking place in the electronics industry, by anticipating the changing needs for our customers. Whether our customers are integrated device manufacturers, fabless, or system companies, they need the fundamental building blocks in silicon to address the cost-effective system solutions that today's and tomorrow's convergence applications require.
The design of today's complex integrated circuits requires state-of-the-art electronic design automation (EDA) software tools, design intellectual property (IP), and design services. GLOBALFOUNDRIES supports customers in achieving successful designs by partnering with leading providers in the EDA, IP, and design services areas. This enables our customers to integrate system-level functionality in their products with accelerated time to market along with reduced design and manufacturing risks. We work with our partners very closely on technical and business aspects, providing our customers an advantage of having the best technical solutions available in a seamless fashion.
GLOBALFOUNDRIES has an active alliance program to validate our partners' EDA tools, libraries and design IP with our silicon process technologies to insure that they meet the highest standards.