Wednesday, November 27, 2002
Attempting to cut the manufacturing cost, IBM and Chartered Semiconductor have signed a deal to jointly develop chipmaking technology and share factory capacity.
The deal specified that IBM Microelectronics and Singapore's Chartered will jointly develop manufacturing processes for 90-nanometer chips and 65-nanometer chips on 300-millimeter wafers.
Additionally, Chartered customers will be able to get their chips produced in IBM's East Fishkill, N.Y., manufacturing facility. Vice versa, IBM customers will be able to get chips made at a Chartered facility in Singapore soon the set up completes.
Instead of building factories on their own, companies are teaming up with other semiconductor manufacturers to build plants or are outsourcing production entirely to foundries in the move to cut cost.
By: DocMemory
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