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DoD's having a crisis with its trusted Foundry Program [1][2].

Originally, IBM's East-Fishkill plant was the largest trusted-foundry of near latest generations (14nm, 22nm) but that was sold off to Global-Foundries, which then sold it off to ON Semiconductor. Now it needs someone to fab the latest generation with a full chain-of-trust.

[1] https://semiengineering.com/a-crisis-in-dods-trusted-foundry...

[2]https://www.dau.edu/cop/dmsms/DAU%20Sponsored%20Documents/Ou...



ON is at least a US owned company. Should make it easier to maintain the trusted foundry there, as they have several other sites which are accredited. According to their marketing material, they are licensing the GF/IBM 45nm/65nm nodes.

https://www.onsemi.com/pub/Collateral/BRD8079-D.PDF




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