COMMUNITY MEETING

GLOBALFOUNDRIES and M + W U.S., Inc. invite the Malta and Stillwater communities to attend an informational meeting to review and discuss construction progress at the Fab 2, Module 1 site on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 6:30 PM. The meeting will be held at the M + W U.S., Inc. field office at 400 Stone Break Road Extension in Malta. Parking is readily available at the office lot.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES and M + W U.S. Inc. representatives will be present to review construction progress, impacts of future construction, construction complaint process and most importantly exciting news about GLOBALFOUNDRIES. Please plan to attend this important community update to be held directly on the construction site. Refreshments will be served.

MEETING: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Fab 2, Module 1 Update

DATE: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 6:30 PM

PLACE: M + W U.S., Inc. Office at 400 Stone Break Road Extension

PARKING: Parking will be in the M + W U.S., Inc.’s field office lot

DIRECTIONS: To reach the lot from Route 9 in Malta, turn onto Stone Break Road and head east into the Luther Forest Technology Campus. Take the second right turn at the roundabout and head up the hill toward the Fab 2 construction site. The M + W U.S., Inc. field office lot will be on the right.

QUESTIONS: Call the GLOBALFOUNDRIES Construction Hotline at 899-0127.

You mean Fab 8, right?

Malta plant is now Fab 8
GlobalFoundries changes facility's name after acquiring Singapore firm
By LARRY RULISON, Business writer
First published in print: Thursday, January 14, 2010

MALTA -- GlobalFoundries Inc. is changing the name of the $4.2 billion computer chip factory it is building in Saratoga Springs after completing the integration of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing of Singapore.


GlobalFoundries' Abu Dhabi investors acquired Chartered last month in a $3.9 billion deal that makes GlobalFoundries one of the largest chip manufacturing companies in the world, with 10,000 employees and $2.5 billion in annual revenue.

As part of merging the two companies, the Chartered name has disappeared.

And with the addition of Chartered's six factories, or fabs, GlobalFoundries has changed the name of the factory being built at Luther Forest Technology Campus in Malta from Fab 2 to Fab 8.

Fab 1 is in Dresden, Germany, a facility that actually includes two factories and that was spun off from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. last year. That's when AMD and Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Investment Co. created GlobalFoundries as a "foundry" to manufacture computer chips for other companies as the industry increasingly follows a "fabless" business model.

GlobalFoundries spokesman Travis Bullard said the integration with Chartered won't have much of an immediate impact on the project in Malta, which is expected to be completed by 2012.

"Integrating two organizations like this is a huge undertaking," Bullard said. "The big impact (locally) will be felt down the road when the fab is up and running. It makes GlobalFoundries much more competitive on the global front. From a local perspective, everything is still on track."

Before GlobalFoundries was merged with Chartered, considered the No. 3 foundry in the world, GlobalFoundries had only a handful of customers, the largest being AMD. Now it has 150, Bullard said.

The factory being built in Malta will make computer chips on 300 millimeter, or 12-inch, silicon wafers, the current standard used by the semiconductor industry in new factories. Five of Chartered's six factories use 200 millimeter, or 8-inch, wafers, while one of them, Fab 7, uses 300 millimeter technology. The factories in Dresden also use 300 millimeter technology, which is more efficient and cost-effective.

With the addition of the Chartered facilities and completion of Fab 8 here in New York, GlobalFoundries says it will be able to process 1.6 million 300 millimeter wafers a year by 2014. That includes 504,000 wafers annually, or 42,000 a month, at Malta, although GlobalFoundries can capacity there by increasing the size of the clean room.

GlobalFoundries also has the capacity to process 2.2 million 200 millimeter wafers a year at its newly acquired Singapore facilities.

Larry Rulison can be reached at 454-5504 or by e-mail at lrulison@timesunion.com.



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Yes, same place.

I just cut and pasted the announcement as I received it.

any update on the new malta elem school? I have heard rumors they were going to purchase the site at cramer road for the school. thanks.

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Originally posted by DA:
any update on the new malta elem school? I have heard rumors they were going to purchase the site at cramer road for the school. thanks.

There may be some action on the land purchase next Bd of Ed mtg. Yes, it is the Cramer Rd/Rte 9 property that's being considered. Remember that the District purchased the land for the current High School many years before actually building.
A study committee has just completed work on a current facilities review. Their report is supposed to be on the District website. I expect we'll see efforts to address many of the issues there long before we see a new school built in Malta.

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Originally posted by Peter Klotz Sr.:

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Originally posted by DA:
any update on the new malta elem school? I have heard rumors they were going to purchase the site at cramer road for the school. thanks.

There may be some action on the land purchase next Bd of Ed mtg. Yes, it is the Cramer Rd/Rte 9 property that's being considered. Remember that the District purchased the land for the current High School many years before actually building.
A study committee has just completed work on a current facilities review. Their report is supposed to be on the District website. I expect we'll see efforts to address many of the issues there long before we see a new school built in Malta.

Thanks Peter.