This exert is from an article from March 2013, that I posted here earlier in the summer. (link to full article below)

"In addition, an agreement with Synopsys will enable GlobalFoundries to build highly accurate tools and models to accelerate process implementation.

Although TSMC remains the number one fab by a considerable margin, GlobalFoundries has long-term aspirations to become the number one foundry. The company’s more immediate goal is “to be number one in the markets that we choose to target,” said Jason Gorss, GlobalFoundries’ senior manager, technology communications.

Jelinek contends that GlobalFoundries needs to challenge TSMC by being an innovative risk taker, maintaining technology one-or-more years in front of its larger competitor. Also, the processes under development must be developed so they are production ready. Not only does the company need to create the technology, it has to handle all the ancillary operations for production, which is very different from what the company is capable of producing in the lab."

http://electronics360.globalspec.com/article/74/here-comes-globalfoundries-the-upstart-is-now-2