GF Labs

As our strategic growth engine, GF Labs creates and incubates the disruptive technologies that strengthen our leadership today and open entirely new markets tomorrow.

The future doesn’t happen by accident

GF Labs is the engine behind our long-term growth and market expansion. We deliver industry-shaping research and technology to explore emerging markets and shape the technologies our customers will build on, developing breakthrough technologies years before they’re needed at scale.

GF Labs works at the center of a global network of universities, government agencies, R&D consortia, equipment and material partners, startups and venture partners—each accelerating ideas from early research toward real-world impact. Together, this ecosystem expands our capabilities, strengthens our technology pipeline and ensures we are building what the industry will need next.

  • 1,400

    technologists in dedicated research teams

  • 85+

    university and consortia partners

  • 80+

    start-up and incubator partners

  • 150+

    active research programs across 25+ world-class technology platforms

“GF Labs is a streamlined, focused organization with a single mission: to create disruptive technologies that enable our product lines with new capabilities and open doors to entirely new markets.”

Gregg Bartlett, Chief Technology Officer

Building tomorrow’s foundation today

Vision means nothing without the work. Across 25+ technology platforms and 150+ active programs, our engineers and researchers build the breakthrough capabilities that will power the next era of computing, proven out years before the market needs them. GF Labs builds foundational technologies years ahead of demand.

  • Advanced packaging

    Our research advances the next generation of packaging architectures from chiplet integration to high-density interconnects that extend the performance, density and efficiency of GF’s technologies. As compute demands outpace what monolithic scaling can deliver, packaging is becoming where system performance is won.
    Learn more: Advanced packaging

  • Quantum

    GF Labs is building the architectures, materials and partner ecosystem required to position GF for leadership in the emerging quantum market. Our work establishes foundational capabilities from spin-qubit devices to cryogenic integration that will underpin commercial quantum systems later this decade.

  • Silicon photonics

    Building on our proven silicon photonics technologies, GF Labs helps pave the way for next‑generation applications in data center interconnects, high‑speed communications and compact LiDAR systems. Our research is paving the way for the transition from pluggables to co-packaged optics to keep pace with the demands of hyperscale data centers.
    Learn more: Silicon photonics

Partner with GF Labs

The next decade of computing, communications and AI will be built on technologies being engineered now. If you’re working on what’s next, we want to hear from you.

University partnerships

We work side-by-side with leading academic institutions to turn breakthrough research into industry-ready outcomes and prepare the next generation of talent.

Learn more: University partnerships

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