GlobalFoundries partners with Fermionic to produce first ever chip for an Indian firm

Semiconductor manufacturing company GlobalFoundries will produce radio frequency (RF) chips for government-backed Fermionic under a partnership, a joint statement said on Thursday.

Fermionic's RF chips will be the first Indian semiconductors to be manufactured by GlobalFoundries, which has been producing chips for global majors such as Qualcomm, Mediatek, Broadcom etc.

"GlobalFoundries Engineering Private Limited (GF India) and Fermionic, an Indian fabless semiconductor startup focused on advanced radio frequency (RF) solutions, announced a commercial partnership under which GF will manufacture Fermionic's RF chips," the statement said.


Fermionic is a part of an early cohort of Indian fabless companies under the government's Design Linked Incentive (DLI) scheme.

"Our collaboration with GlobalFoundries India enables us to deliver complex, production grade RF silicon, not just prototypes, and build the confidence required by our customers in strategic applications. At this stage of our journey, we needed more than a manufacturing vendor, we needed a partner who understands RF complexity and can support production grade execution. GlobalFoundries' RF expertise and GF India's hands on engagement made that possible," Fermionic CEO Gautam Kumar Singh said.

Fermionic is developing high-performance RF and millimeter-wave (mmWave) chips for radar, satellite communications, telecom infrastructure, and adjacent applications.

The company's product roadmap includes beamformers, phased-array transceivers, RF switches, high-linearity power amplifier chains, and integrated front-end ICs optimized for intelligent sensing, adaptive communications, and AI-enabled RF systems.