In the segment of mobile devices, apparently, Chinese contract giant Foxconn prefers to go it own, special way. Foxconn's investment is eyeing on Taiwanese chip developer Socle Technology, which was founded in 2001, and since 2009 has received financial and technological support Globalfoundries. In particular, in July 2012, the company jointly mastered the 28-nm process.
Taiwanese sources explain that Globalfoundries pretty tough dictates in selecting contract manufacturer, which will be charged issue chips Socle, imposing their own services.
The factory include the development of Socle 20-nm, 16-nm and 14-nm process technology. The company is a licensee of ARM, uses the same name processor architectures. Foxconn also interested in the possibility of developing its own processors, which could be used in mobile devices .