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GlobalFoundries to make chips for Pentagon spy satellites, missiles

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GlobalFoundries will make chips for the Pentagon to be used in U.S. spy satellites, missiles and combat jets.
RICH CLEMENT

By
Chelsea Diana
Reporter, Albany Business Review
Jun 6, 2016, 7:40pm
GlobalFoundries, the computer chip maker with a factory in Saratoga County, New York, will make chips for the Pentagon to be used in U.S. spy satellites, missiles and combat jets.
The Pentagon has reached a seven-year agreement with GlobalFoundries to make the microchips,
according to The Wall Street Journal.
Terms of the contract were not disclosed.
The chips are made at GlobalFoundries' factories in East Fishkill and Essex Junction, Vermont. Those are the two factories that GlobalFoundries acquired last year when IBM paid the company $1.5 billion to take over IBM's struggling microelectronics business.
IBM previously made the chips for the Pentagon.
The GlobalFoundries contract will run until 2023.
GlobalFoundries is owned by Mubadala, an investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government. The company operates factories in Malta — about 30 miles north of Albany — East Fishkill and Essex Junction, as well as Dresden, Germany, and Singapore.
The merger with IBM brought GlobalFoundries' payroll to about 5,000 employees in the Northeast. GlobalFoundries also acquired 16,000 IBM patents.
About 1,810 people are employed in East Fishkill, and there are just under 3,000 people at the Malta plant.
Read
more about the Pentagon deal from The Wall Street Journal here.