Volume 16 - December 2006 Customer Newsletter

A quarterly update on Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing's
product solutions and services

IN THIS EDITION:

45nm, 65nm and 90nm

  • Chartered Fab 7 Earns 2006 Top Fab Award
  • Chartered, IBM and Samsung Produce 90nm SoCs for QUALCOMM
  • Amkor Offers Package and Test Solutions for Common Platform Technology
Design Enablement
  • Chartered Invests in Design Services Firm to Enhance Total Solutions
  • ARM Delivers Low-Power, High-Performance Libraries for 45nm Common Platform
  • ARM926EJ Core Available on Chartered 0.13-micron and 90nm
  • Aragio Offers High-Performance Mixed-Signal IP and I/Os For Chartered's Processes

45nm, 65nm & 90nm

Chartered Fab 7 Earns 2006 Top Fab Award
Semiconductor International has honored Chartered's Fab 7 as one of the two facilities selected as "Top Fab" for 2006. This is the third time Chartered has won the award from Semiconductor International, and the second time in three years, following the 2004 award for Fab 6. Chartered's Fab 2 won the award in 1997. Chartered's Fab 7, which is the company's first 300mm wafer facility, won high marks in all categories, and the judges were impressed with the fast ramp times with which Chartered is able to bring up new leading-edge processes in the fab. Chartered has been able to reduce ramp-up times for new processes from 10 quarters to 2 quarters thanks to its investment in leading-edge equipment and processes.

For more information, visit www.charteredsemi.com.
Chartered, IBM and Samsung Produce 90nm SoCs for QUALCOMM
Chartered and its Common Platform partners, IBM and Samsung Electronics have successfully produced 90nm chips for QUALCOMM in their respective 300mm fabs. The three companies have manufactured in volume, low-power system-on-chips (SoC) which are used in QUALCOMM's cellular phone chipsets and other wireless communications devices. The Common Platform relationship with QUALCOMM extends past 90nm, to 65nm and beyond. This latest customer win is another testimony of the success of the Common Platform, which offers multi-sourcing of 300mm manufacturing at 90nm, 65nm and 45nm process technologies and comprehensive design enablement.

For more information, visit http://www.charteredsemi.com/media/corp/2006n/20061026.asp
Amkor Offers Package and Test Solutions for Common Platform Technology
Amkor Technology is collaborating with Chartered, IBM and Samsung in qualifying 90nm and 65nm flip-chip packaging and design capabilities for Common Platform technology. Amkor has already qualified several die and package combinations at both 90nm and 65nm with several new 65nm qualifications in process. In the past 12 months, Amkor has delivered over 10 million flip chip packages containing 90nm Common Platform silicon from multiple foundries for the gaming market.

For more information, please contact your local Chartered representative.

Design Enablement

Chartered Invests in Design Services Firm to Enhance Total Solutions
Chartered is investing in Gateway Silicon Inc. (GSI), a Taiwan-based firm specializing in ASIC/ SoC design services, intellectual property development and integration. GSI is a spin-off of Macronix International Co., Ltd, a Taiwanese integrated device manufacturer. The two companies will jointly develop and optimize design services while extending GSI's expertise to leverage Chartered's portfolio of value-added solutions (VAS). The VAS offering consists of plug-in modules based on Chartered's proven CMOS process technologies. VAS is targeted at specific market segments such as microcontrollers, non-volatile memory, high-voltage devices and low-power products for applications requiring extensive power management.

For more information, visit http://www.charteredsemi.com/media/corp/2006n/20061030.asp

ARM Delivers Low-Power, High-Performance Libraries for 45nm Common Platform
Chartered, IBM and Samsung have licensed the ARM® Metro™ low-power and Advantage™ high-performance products for the 45nm Common Platform low-power process. The ARM Advantage and Metro products include standard cells, I/Os and memories, which support the 45nm low power Common Platform process and a wide range of consumer, communications and networking applications. Preliminary versions of the standard cell, I/O libraries and memory compilers for the 45nm low-power technology will be available in the fourth quarter of 2006 to licensed customers. Final versions of the products are scheduled to be available in the second quarter of 2007.

For more information, visit http://www.arm.com/news/15146.html
ARM926EJ Core Available on Chartered 0.13-micron and 90nm
Chartered has teamed up with Socle Technology to offer the ARM926EJ core on 0.13-micron nominal, 90nm generic and low-power technologies. SoC designers of consumer multimedia and telecommunications will be able to use the ARM926EJ core through ASIC or COT business models. These provide cost-effective usage rights and higher hardcore performance to the ARM cores. Customization of the ARM926EJ core configuration is also possible to optimize cache size, speed and power. Socle has already taped out test chips to Chartered and design kits will be ready starting from the end of 2006.

For more information, please contact your local Chartered representative.
Aragio Offers High-Performance Mixed-Signal IP and I/Os For Chartered's Processes
Aragio Solutions' silicon-proven analog and mixed-signal IP and I/Os are now available for Chartered processes from 0.18 micron to 90nm. Both companies are also working together to qualify the Aragio IP on Chartered's 65nm process. Aragio's offering comprises 90nm 2.5V standard I/O libraries; 0.13-micron 2.5V/5.0V Tolerant standard I/O Libraries; and 0.13-micron 3.3V/5.0V Tolerant standard I/O Libraries that cover a number of Chartered process variations for both staggered and inline pad configuration. Aragio's offering also includes various I/O pads sets for 90nm and 0.13-micron processes to enable a variety of consumer, commercial data processing and home office computing applications.

For more information, please contact your local Chartered representative.

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