CHARTERED HOSTS 2004 TECHNOLOGY FORUMS
Events in Taiwan, US, and Japan focus on enabling transition to
0.13-micron and 90nm SoC manufacturing
MILPITAS, Calif. - August 23, 2004 - Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (Nasdaq: CHRT and SGX-ST: Chartered), one of the world's top three dedicated semiconductor foundries, will host its annual worldwide Technology Forums in three locations:
- Friday, September 3 Hsinchu, Taiwan
- Thursday, September 16 San Jose, California
- Wednesday, November 10 Yokohama, Japan
This year's forums - entitled "New Perspective. New Performance. New Choice." - focus on the importance of looking ahead and aligning today's solutions platform for tomorrow's needs, as well as establishing a "smart" platform, one that provides customers with the technology, design and economic choices they require to address the complex challenges at 90 nanometer (nm) and beyond to achieve the desired silicon results.
"As 0.13 micron becomes mainstream, companies are realizing that new choices and business models are required for future technology nodes, as design portability and multi-sourcing options become essential for reducing risks in terms of design flexibility and overall system costs," said Mike Rekuc, senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at Chartered.
"At this year's Tech Forum series, our attendees will gain practical information about Chartered's proven, 0.13-micron total-solutions platform that is empowering a broad spectrum of advanced SoC products in the marketplace today. They will also learn details of the industry's first common process and design-enablement platform, which is a design-ready, proven platform established by Chartered and IBM gaining increasing acceptance by industry leaders."
The Tech Forum agenda includes presentations on Chartered's technology roadmap, 90nm platform solutions, 0.13-micron SoC solutions, high-performance mixed signal/RF, and leading-edge manufacturing methodologies and management systems for enhancing process and reliability performances at Chartered's 200- and 300-millimeter wafer fabrication facilities.
At the Tech Forum in San Jose, Dr. John E. Kelly, III, senior vice president and group executive - Technology, Systems & Technology Group, IBM, will deliver the keynote address. Senior executives and technology experts from Chartered and IBM will also discuss their collaboration to establish a common process and design-enablement platform for enabling the transition to 90nm and beyond, as well as methods for enabling successful technology transfer.
The Tech Forum in Taiwan will also feature Chartered's value-added solutions - embedded and programmable technologies, power management capabilities and wireless innovations - which are well-suited for integration in a variety of consumer electronics products such as embedded cards as well as mobile, display and wireless products.
Each Tech Forum also features a Partner Pavilion, which showcases Chartered's strategic value-chain partners. The partners exhibiting at one or more locations this year include: Analog Bits, Inc.; Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (ASE); ARM Limited; Artisan Components, Inc.; Cadence Design Systems, Inc.; ChipIdea Microelectronics S.A.; eMemory Technology Inc.; The Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA); Flextronics Corporation; Hoya; Legend Design Technology, Inc.; Magma Design Automation Inc.; Mentor Graphics Corp.; MoSys, Inc.; Photronics, Inc.; Qthink; QualCore Logic Inc.; Solid Silicon Technology, LLC; STATS ChipPAC Ltd.; Synopsys, Inc.; Taiwan Mask Corporation; Time To Market; Toppan Chunghwa Electronics Co., Ltd.; Ulead Technology, Inc.; Virage Logic Corp. and The VCX.
Registration information is available at http://www.charteredsemi.com/forum/.
About Chartered
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, one of the world's top three dedicated semiconductor foundries, is forging a customized approach to outsourced semiconductor manufacturing by building lasting and collaborative partnerships with its customers. The company provides flexible and cost-effective manufacturing solutions for customers, enabling the convergence of communications, computing and consumer markets. In Singapore, Chartered operates four fabrication facilities and has a fifth fab, the company's first 300mm facility, which is expected to begin pilot production by the end of 2004.
A company with both global presence and perspective, Chartered is traded on both the Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq: CHRT) and on the Singapore Exchange (SGX-ST: CHARTERED). Information about Chartered can be found at http://www.charteredsemi.com.
