FMC Dresden and Great Lakes Semiconductor Announce Partnership
FMC, a leading semiconductor and memory technology company based in Dresden, and Great Lakes Semiconductor (GLS), a technology and semiconductor company based in New York, announced a strategic partnership today.
Through this partnership, both companies aim to strengthen innovation in the semiconductor sector, commercialization, and resilient supply chains in the United States, Germany, and the entire transatlantic ecosystem. As part of this collaboration, GLS founder and CEO Dr. Richard L. Thurston brings extensive industry expertise from his time at TSMC in Taiwan.
The partnership combines FMC’s advanced memory technologies and semiconductor expertise with GLS’s capabilities in rapid development and prototyping, small-batch manufacturing, AM/3D packaging, and technology commercialization. Together, FMC and GLS aim to strengthen the path from semiconductor research and development to mass production, thereby addressing one of the industry’s most persistent challenges: transforming promising technologies into commercially scalable products.
The companies intend to collaborate throughout the entire process—from semiconductor research and technology development to commercial manufacturing. As semiconductor production increasingly concentrates on large-scale manufacturing facilities, access to capacity for prototyping, pilot production, packaging, and testing of new technologies poses a growing challenge. FMC and GLS aim to help bridge this gap by creating a more efficient path from innovation and validation to commercial deployment. The companies will also explore opportunities to expand future innovation and prototyping capabilities in the semiconductor sector in Germany and leverage Saxony’s position as Europe’s leading semiconductor cluster.
A key initial focus of the partnership will be enabling GLS’s ChipForge™ platform, which is designed to support activities such as rapid development and prototyping, technical validation, and pilot production. The companies will explore opportunities to leverage these capabilities to accelerate FMC’s technology roadmap and support additional semiconductor programs.
- About FMC
FMC is a leading provider of memory chips and solutions based in Dresden. With its persistent nvDRAM+ and high-density Cache+, the company has created a new class of memory technologies that enable more sustainable, faster, and more cost-efficient systems. Thanks to its extremely low power consumption, this technology significantly reduces the energy requirements of AI data centers, thereby laying the foundation for their expansion in Europe and worldwide.