GlobalFoundries Chengdu (cancelled) · 格芯（成都）集成电路制造有限公司（未建成）
GlobalFoundries | Fab
The $10 billion fab that started China’s 12-inch era paper boom and ended it: GF halted funding Oct 2018 amid its own IPO delay; the government-built shell stood empty; formal closure with severance for the last 74 employees May 2020; a reported revival by Intel was shelved Nov 2021; a 2020 claim that ex-SK Hynix VP Choi Jin-seok’s 成都高真科技 would take the shell for DRAM is not verified as ever materializing.
Chinese name: 格芯（成都）集成电路制造有限公司（未建成） (Géxīn (Chéngdū))
What does this facility make?
Nothing — the site never brought production tools in; it was sealed January 2019.
Why does it matter?
This tracker previously only footnoted GF Chengdu’s absence in About; it is now a proper Cancelled entry — the closure of GF Chengdu is the pivot point after which every surviving 12-inch project became state-financed, and the empty shell became the cautionary reference in every subsequent local-government fab pitch.
Key Facts
| Company | GlobalFoundries |
| Type | Fab |
| Category | Foreign-Invested |
| Capability | Never produced — announced Feb 2017, ~$10B 12-inch JV fab (22FDX FD-SOI + legacy nodes, 20k wpm planned, 85k at full build) |
| Status | Cancelled |
| Capacity | Not yet recorded |
| Investment | $10,000M |
| Funding Source | Foreign |
| Location | Chengdu, Sichuan |
| Current Node | Not yet researched |
| Entity List | No |
| Equipment Origin | Not yet assessed |
| Last Verified | Not recorded (newest source dated Nov 2021) |
Technical Complexity
3.5/5
Technology Node Trajectory
Node history not yet researched.
Project Timeline
- Feb 2017 — GF-Chengdu JV announced — at the time the largest planned 12-inch logic fab in mainland China
- Oct 2018 — GF cancels remaining investment; tools removed early 2019, site sealed
- Nov 2021 — SCMP: Intel shelts takeover of the abandoned plant
Sources
- GlobalFoundries Abandons Chengdu Wafer Fab (EE Times) (04 Oct 2018)
- Intel shelves plan to take over GF’s abandoned Chengdu plant (SCMP) (28 Nov 2021)