- CEO
- Hsiu Lan Hsu
- Full Time Employees
- 657
- Sector
- Producer manufacturing
- Industry
- Industrial machinery
- Address
- Hsinchu Science Park Hsinchu TP Taiwan 30075
- IPO Date
- Oct 28, 2014
- Business
- GlobalWafers Co., Ltd. manufactures and sells semiconductor silicon ingots and wafers worldwide. The company produces silicon ingots; polished wafers; annealed wafers; epitaxial wafers; diffusion wafers; compound semiconductor wafers including silicon carbide and gallium nitride on silicon; SOI wafers; test wafers; and epitaxial products, with diameters ranging from 3 to 12 inches and supporting applications in logic, memory, power devices, RF, photonics, CMOS image sensors, 5G, electric vehicles, and advanced nodes up to 300mm. GlobalWafers operates manufacturing, R&D, and sales facilities in Taiwan, the United States, Europe, Japan, and Asia Pacific, serving leading chipmakers such as TSMC, Texas Instruments, and all of the top 25 semiconductor customers. Founded in 1981 and headquartered in Hsinchu City, Taiwan, the company spun off from Sino-American Silicon Products Inc. in 2011 and ranks as the world's third-largest silicon wafer supplier. Recent developments include receiving up to $406 million in preliminary U.S. CHIPS Act funding in December 2024 for 300mm wafer production expansion through subsidiaries GlobalWafers America and MEMC in Sherman, Texas, and St. Peters, Missouri; inaugurating a $3.5 billion wafer facility in Sherman in May 2025; and announcing collaboration with Apple to supply 300mm wafers from the Texas plant to meet rising U.S. demand.