GlobalFoundries (NASDAQ:GFS) (GF) and NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ:NXPI) today announced collaboration to drive next-generation solutions across a range of end markets including automotive, IoT and smart mobile devices. This collaboration leverages GF's 22FDX® process technology platform and global manufacturing footprint to optimize the power, performance and time-to-market of NXP's solutions. GF's 22FDX chips will be manufactured in Dresden and Malta, New York, providing NXP geographically diverse supply for their customers.

The new collaboration, building on the longtime relationship between NXP and GF, will enable NXP to provide more compact and power-efficient solutions while increasing the overall performance of their system solutions. The companies will leverage GF's 22FDX platform, which optimizes performance by dynamically adjusting to the lowest possible voltage, delivering ultra-low power consumption and high performance for the most demanding applications. Purpose-built for intelligence at the edge, 22FDX optimizes energy management to deliver up to 50% higher performance and 70% less power used versus other planar CMOS technologies.