Company: GFS
Filing Date: 2025-09-11
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001709048-25-000062
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Company: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-11
Form: S-8
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<div align='center'>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 11, 2025</div>

#### Registration No. 333-

### UNITED STATES

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### Washington, D.C. 20549

#### FORM S-8

### REGISTRATION STATEMENT

#### UNDER

#### THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

#### GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.
<div align='center'>(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</div>

| Cayman Islands                  |     |                         3674 |     | 98-0604079            |
| (State or other jurisdiction of 
 incorporation or organization)  |     | -Primary Standard Industrial 
   Classification Code Number |     | -I.R.S. Employer      
 Identification Number |

#### 400 Stonebreak Road Extension

#### Malta, New York 12020
<div align='center'>(518) 305-9013

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

GlobalFoundries Inc. 2021 Equity Compensation Plan

GlobalFoundries Inc. 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

(Full title of the plan)</div>

#### Corporation Service Company

#### 251 Little Falls Drive

#### Wilmington, DE 19808
<div align='center'>(800) 927-9801

(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)</div>

<div align='center'>Copies to:</div>

| Adam Fleisher, Esq.                  
 Michael J. Albano, Esq.              
 Shuangjun Wang, Esq.                 
 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP 
 One Liberty Plaza                    
 New York, New York 10006             
 (212) 225-2000                       |

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

| Large accelerated filer |     | ☒ |     | Accelerated filer         |     | ☐ |
| Non-accelerated filer   |     | ☐ |     | Smaller reporting company |     | ☐ |
|                         |     |   |     | Emerging growth company