
Defiance Global Foundries ETF is an exchange-traded fund that seeks to provide targeted exposure to companies involved in semiconductor foundry manufacturing and related infrastructure. The fund invests in companies that manufacture semiconductors for other chip designers, as well as businesses providing equipment, materials, and technologies supporting the global semiconductor foundry ecosystem.
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Investors who want direct exposure to the physical manufacturing bottleneck of the AI boom have had a hard time getting it cleanly.

The Defiance Global Foundries ETF (NASDAQ:AIFR) launched into a market that has spent most of 2026 obsessing over who actually fabricates the world's leading-edge silicon.

Defiance ETFs has launched the Defiance Global Foundries ETF (NASDAQ:AIFR) , which it says is the first U.S.-listed ETF dedicated to semiconductor foundries.

MIAMI, Sept. 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Defiance ETFs, a leader in thematic and income ETFs, today announced the launch of the Defiance Global Foundries ETF (Nasdaq: AIFR) , the first U.S.-listed ETF* dedicated to semiconductor foundries. AIFR is designed to provide targeted exposure to the manufacturing layer of the AI buildout: the companies that fabricate the chips designed by everyone else, from leading-edge AI accelerators to the power, analog, and embedded semiconductors inside every server, vehicle, and device.