Commerce Dept. reallocates $955M in CHIPS funds to GlobalFoundries for silicon photonics and packaging

pstAsiatech · x · 2026-10-16

• The Commerce Department's CHIPS Program Office agreed with GlobalFoundries to reallocate up to $955 million of its existing CHIPS and Science Act award—without increasing the total.
• In exchange, GlobalFoundries will expand capital investment in its Malta, NY and Burlington, VT facilities to $5 billion for modernization and expansion.
• The funding targets domestic capacity for silicon photonics, silicon-germanium, and advanced packaging—technologies increasingly critical to communications infrastructure and data centers.

Original post →

More from Infra

• Local AI is a routing problem, not a privacy feature: where each task should run — bigdata · 2026-10-16
• Moving agent work from GPUs to CPUs for durable, predictable actions — cramforce · 2026-10-16
• First TPUv7 agentic benchmark on vLLM claims 1.42x perf-per-dollar over GB300 NVL72 — vllm_project · 2026-10-16
• Phison CEO calls CXMT memory scare a 'ghost story', warns of materials shortage — BenBajarin · 2026-10-16
• Ben Bajarin: The Future of Compute Is Fungible as Hyperscalers Design for Workload Flexibility — BenBajarin · 2026-10-16
• AirLLM runs frontier-size models layer-by-layer: 671B on 12GB VRAM — Aiden_Tech_Ai · 2026-10-16

Infra channel →