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GlobalFoundries Reports Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results

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GlobalFoundries Inc. (GF) today announced preliminary financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2024.

Key Third Quarter Financial Highlights
  • Revenue of $1.739 billion
  • Gross margin of 23.8% and Non-IFRS gross margin of 24.7%
  • Operating margin of 10.6% and Non-IFRS operating margin of 13.6%
  • Net income of $178 million and Non-IFRS net income of $229 million
  • Non-IFRS adjusted EBITDA of $627 million
  • Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $4.3 billion
  • Year to date net cash provided by operating activities of $1,265 million and Non-IFRS adjusted free cash flow of $779 million



"In the third quarter, the GF team continued to execute next generation opportunities with our customers, by securing key design wins across our growing portfolio of essential chip technologies," said Dr. Thomas Caulfield, President and CEO of GF. "We delivered consistent financial results at the upper end of the guidance ranges we provided in our August earnings release, and as we continue to navigate the ongoing uncertainties facing our industry, we remain on-track to deliver approximately a threefold increase in our year-over-year Non-IFRS adjusted free cash flow generation by the end of 2024."

Recent Business Highlights
  • Building on the longtime relationship between GF and NXP Semiconductors (NXP), the companies announced a new collaboration leveraging GF's 22FDXÂ process technology platform and global manufacturing footprint to optimize the power, performance and time-to-market of NXP's solutions across a range of automotive, IoT and smart mobile devices. GF's 22FDX chips will be manufactured in Dresden, Germany and Malta, New York, providing NXP geographically diverse supply for their customers.
  • Over one thousand customers and partners attended GF annual Technology Summit held around the world in Santa Clara, California, Munich, Germany and Shanghai, China, to build deeper relationships and learn how GF's essential chips play a critical role in realizing "AI Everywhere".
  • GF entered into a strategic technology development and licensing agreement with Finwave Semiconductor, Inc (Finwave), a leading innovator in GaN technology. The collaboration will optimize and scale Finwave's cutting-edge GaN-on-Si technology to volume production at GF's 200 mm fab in Burlington, Vermont.

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Wafer shipments and revenue have declined slightly when compared to the same quarter in 2023.
 
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I'm gonna say that their greater than 10 nm business plan will only be sustainable for so long. Less than $2B per quarter is not enough to expand into new fabs or put a lot into R&D even with government subsidies.
 
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I'm gonna say that their greater than 10 nm business plan will only be sustainable for so long. Less than $2B per quarter is not enough to expand into new fabs or put a lot into R&D even with government subsidies.
Add to that the new fabs for mature nodes the Chinese are building and GF will have an even bigger problem in the not so far future.
 
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It's nice to see that they're still alive and kicking despite not having any cutting edge fab. It would be nice to break TSMC's monopoly, though - shame that no one can at the moment.
 
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There was an article a couple of years ago saying that GlobalFoundries will no longer invest in node shrinks, and they will reprofile their business concept.
Here:
 

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There was an article a couple of years ago saying that GlobalFoundries will no longer invest in node shrinks, and they will reprofile their business concept.
Here:

And it's very sane. "Just keep doing what we're decent at and make a profit" is just good business. Not everything has to be tainted by endless growth.
 
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