Europe Launches First Domestic Fabrication Flow for Defense Chips
Qualinx says the flow keeps mask services and wafer production inside Europe for aerospace and defense chips.
- Qualinx and GlobalFoundries completed Europe's first end-to-end secure semiconductor manufacturing flow, validating the process using a Qualinx QLX3xx Global Navigation Satellite System system-on-chip designed for aerospace and defense applications.
- Supported by the European Chips Act, the initiative utilizes the GlobalFoundries Dresden, Germany, facility and FDX platform to ensure sensitive design data remains within European borders, targeting strategic sectors including critical infrastructure.
- Optimizing technology on the GlobalFoundries FDX platform, Qualinx CEO Tom Trill said the collaboration demonstrates that "a fully European manufacturing path from mask services to wafer production is already a reality today."
- "We are demonstrating that Europe can rely on a secure, end-to-end semiconductor manufacturing flow that meets the highest requirements of aerospace and defense," stated GlobalFoundries SVP and general manager Dr Manfred Horstmann, marking an operational milestone.
- By the end of 2026, GlobalFoundries plans to expand this sovereign capability, incorporating additional European partners into the ecosystem where aerospace, defense, and critical infrastructure customers could access the manufacturing flow through standard foundry engagements.
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Europe launches first domestic fabrication flow for defense chips
Europe’s effort to strengthen control over its semiconductor supply chain has reached a significant milestone. GlobalFoundries and Dutch chip designer Qualinx have completed what they describe as the continent’s first fully European end-to-end semiconductor manufacturing flow. The achievement shows that security-sensitive chips can move from design to fabrication entirely within Europe. The approach targets applications where supply chain contro…
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technewstube.comDutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend
Dutch semiconductor startup Qualinx is claiming a breakthrough of sorts in European sovereign manufacturing thanks to an end-to-end semiconductor fabrication flow it is using for its new satnav chips. The firm, a spin-off from Delft University of Technology, says it has demonstrated that security-critical chips for aerospace, defense, and critical infrastructure can be designed, manufactured, and delivered entirely within Europe. Tape-out of the…
The Delft-based startup Qualinx claims to be the first company to produce chips via a fully European supply chain. The company does this at the German factory of the American GlobalFoundries. According to the companies, this demonstrates that chips for defense and critical infrastructure, for example, can be designed, produced, and delivered entirely within Europe.
Delft-based chip designer Qualinx has become the first European company to establish a fully European chip production chain. The company's chips are produced in Dresden at a GlobalFoundries factory, a spin-off of the equally American AMD. "Together with GlobalFoundries, we have demonstrated that a chip production chain fully anchored in Europe is no longer a dream, but a reality," Tim Allemeersch, Senior Director of Customer Success, told BNR.
Qualinx and Globalfoundries complete all-European foundry process
Qualinx has completed a fully European-based, end-to-end semiconductor manufacturing flow at GlobalFoundries’ Dresden fab on its FD-SOI technology. It shows that security-critical chips for aerospace, defence and critical infrastructure can be designed, manufactured and ... The post Qualinx and Globalfoundries complete all-European foundry process appeared first on Electronics Weekly.
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