CHARTERED DETAILS ROADMAP FOR 0.10-MICRON SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING PROCESS

ARTISAN COMPONENTS
"Artisan is very excited to be working with Chartered. Our users receive tremendous benefits from the long term strategic relationship that exists between our companies. The value of our collaboration is ultimately realized by providing our mutual customers with high-quality components for advanced manufacturing processes like Chartered's 0.10-micron technology. We look forward to continuing our relationship and having the opportunity to provide a complete and robust solution of embedded memories, standard cell and I/O libraries for Chartered's latest process offerings. Our common goal is to enable customers to realize the full performance, density, power and yield advantages of the 0.10-micron technology." --Harry Dickinson, Chief Operating Officer at Artisan Components
AVANT! CORPORATION
"Avant! applauds Chartered's continued execution of a leading-edge process roadmap, and accelerated delivery of mixed-signal technologies in conjunction with its baseline logic 0.10-micron process. We share the same 'total solution' approach as Chartered and this is reflected in both the tool and library support by our companies. Especially valuable to our mutual customers is Chartered's foundry-compatible strategy, which is consistent with Avant!'s Passport libraries approach, by offering customers total freedom of choice." --Glenn Aumack, Head of Library Sales at Avant! Corporation
VIRAGE LOGIC
"Virage is a long-standing partner of Chartered, and we are pleased to make our embedded memory compilers available to customers of Chartered's 0.10-micron process. Our joint efforts promise to provide chip designers with embedded memory solutions which are optimized for density, speed, and low-power market requirements addressed by Chartered's new 0.10 um process offering." --Vin Ratford, Vice President of Marketing at Virage Logic