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Stephen Nellis
Thu, March 26, 2026 astatine 9:19 AM CDT 1 min read
By Stephen Nellis
SAN FRANCISCO, March 26 (Reuters) - GlobalFoundries connected Thursday said it has sued Israel-based rival Tower Semiconductor, alleging that Tower Semiconductor infringed connected 11 GlobalFoundries patents that subordinate to manufacturing chips that spell into smart phones and different physics devices.
GlobalFoundries said it has filed 2 complaints successful the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas and 1 with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). The Malta, New York-based semiconductor shaper said that the ITC lawsuit volition question to artifact the import into the U.S. of chips made by Tower Semiconductor that were made with technologies covered by the patents successful the case.
Tower Semiconductor did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
While ample spot manufacturers specified arsenic Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and Intel absorption connected making the fastest and smallest computing chips, GlobalFoundries and Tower Semiconductor are specialty chipmakers that absorption connected niches such arsenic radio-frequency chips and silicon photonics. GlobalFoundries past twelvemonth said it planned to walk $16 cardinal to grow its facilities successful Vermont and New York, with a absorption connected probe and development.
(Reporting by Stephen Nellis successful San Francisco; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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