foundries
- plural of foundry.
Example Sentences
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Memory-chip makers are rushing to add new manufacturing lines, but semiconductor factories, also known as foundries or fabs, cost billions of dollars and generally take two to three years to build.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
At the same time, leading-edge chip making will continue to face supply constraints due to capital requirements and the time needed to develop foundries, they said.
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026
“This is over a billion dollars’ worth of opportunity for all the foundries combined,” Saleem said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 31, 2026
"I don't think it would have happened from any area other than Aston with all of those foundries and factories and the smelts and the bomb sites," he adds.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
Such foundries were not unknown to the Inka, but Andean societies vastly preferred to hammer metal into thin sheets, form the sheets around molds, and solder the results.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
