GlobalFoundries inks domestic chip deal with Cirrus Logic • The Register

Texas fabless chip firm Cirrus Logic has announced a new partnership with GlobalFoundries on next-generation bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) and gallium nitride (GaN) parts.

It says this will be centered around GloFo's New York and Vermont facilities respectively, as the industry continues to work around an increasingly challenging regulatory environment for importing chips into the US.

Cirrus Logic president and chief exec John Forsyth positioned the deal as a move to "deepen our longstanding relationship" with GlobalFoundries , AMD's spun-out manufacturing division, which would "help accelerate cutting-edge mixed-signal chip manufacturing" within the US.

This, in turn, "strengthens the US semiconductor supply chain," Forsyth added. Unmentioned but impossible to ignore is that it would also he