300mm silicon wafers are the essential input used by foundries and integrated device manufacturers to produce leading-edge, mature-node, and memory chips. Silicon from GWC’s semiconductor wafers is found in essentially every machine that powers modern life - from home appliances, automobiles and physical infrastructure to computers, AI applications and, importantly, iPhone and iPad devices.
As the only global manufacturer of advanced 300mm wafers participating in the Trump Administration’s CHIPS for America Program, GlobalWafers America is bringing back to American shores the critical starting material that undergirds U.S. chip production.
GlobalWafers President Mark England remarked, “Over the past 30 years advanced silicon wafer production all but left America for lower cost manufacturing hubs. Our new partnership with Apple, America ’s most important end-user of silicon, is a powerful market signal that the entire semiconductor supply chain is now back in the U.S. in full force.”
For her part, GlobalWafers Chairwoman Doris Hsu noted, “iPhone and iPad are well-known in every nation in the world, and we’re thrilled that silicon from GlobalWafers America will be found in many of these incredible products. We feel honored that Apple is working with us and their first-tier suppliers to make American semiconductor manufacturing great again.”
“With our new American Manufacturing Program, we’re proud to partner with companies like GlobalWafers America to create new jobs and bring even more manufacturing to America,” said Sabih Khan, Apple’s chief operating officer. “This is part of our $600 billion commitment to the U.S. over the next four years, and we couldn’t be more excited about the future of American innovation.”
Since the beginning of his second Administration, President Trump has made it easier to invest in semiconductor manufacturing by expanding the Advanced Manufacturing Investment Credit to 35% under the One Big Beautiful Bill and by streamlining the CHIPS for America Program. The new Apple-GWA partnership builds on this foundation by using market forces to drive supply chain demand.
Of this, Mark England said, "President Trump and his team have delivered on CHIPS commitments to get wafer production off the ground. GWA is fully committed to collaborating with Apple and their first-tier chip suppliers to provide best-in-class silicon wafers for all their applications.”
GlobalWafers Co., Ltd., the world’s third largest supplier of semiconductor wafers, maintains 18 manufacturing and operational sites spanning three continents and nine countries. The company is one of the global leaders in semiconductor technology, providing innovative and advanced technology solutions to leading chip manufacturers to transform lives around the world.
