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Chartered Strengthens 0.13-Micon and 0.18-Micron Solutions With Enhanced Design Services Alliance Program
December 7, 2004
"Getting a chip design through to manufacturing at complex process geometries requires new levels of expertise and cooperation across the entire development process. DNP's services offering is based on our company's product development expertise, allowing us to provide turnkey solutions for taking designs from netlist to tested packaged chips. We are pleased to be able to work with the mutual customers of Chartered, particularly in the Japanese market, to help them take advantage of the benefits that Chartered's manufacturing capabilities offer."
Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Director of Electronic Device Operations at DNP
Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) was established in 1876 and is the world's largest comprehensive printing company. The company's diversified operations include packaging, decorative materials, electronic components and information media. DNP is the world's leading supplier of high-tech photomasks and provides LSI design services for most major Japanese semiconductor companies. DNP has 35,000 employees and its net sales in fiscal 2003 were over US$10 billion. For more information, please visit http://www.dnp.co.jp/.
"At IBM, we are very familiar with the challenges of designing at the 0.18-micron and 0.13-micron nodes. We have been able to leverage the deep technical expertise within IBM to develop services offering which can help companies address different requirements at multiple entry points into the design cycle. We look forward to helping our global customer base gain even more efficient access to advanced technology through Chartered's Design Services Alliances Program."
Tim Ravey, Vice President, Delivery, IBM Engineering & Technology Services
IBM Engineering & Technology Services provides clients in a variety of industries with access to engineering skills and intellectual capital, helping them design, develop, manufacture and bring to market innovative electronics products that depend on the integration of complex technology.
For more information on E&TS, visit http://www.ibm.com/technology.
"Socle is singularly focused on the challenges of advanced SoC design and implementation service. By utilizing Socle's robust SoC development platform, customers can easily take advantages of Socle's extensive IP catalog and experience with large SoC architecture to quickly create and verify a customer SoC. As the official and exclusive MIPS hard core development provider for Asia Pacific and the authorized licensee of ARM926EJ-S™ processor, Socle can get your next SoC to market on time including a complete SoC development platform, rapid customization of different CPU cores, front to back design services, and turnkey management of manufacturing and delivery. We are pleased to have the partnership with Chartered and to bring success to our customers."
Jeff Liu, Vice President, Sales and Marketing Division at Socle
Socle Technology Corporation has been recognized as the number one design service provider of SoC design and implementation service in the world. The company currently offers three main service products worldwide, µPlatform , RTL2Silicon , and Turnkey. µPlatform , a complete development and verification environment for SoCs, can significantly reduces the time and effort needed to bring a new SoC to market. RTL2Silicon , a sophisticated process for realizing a SoC from RTL, is rigorous and thorough and therefore consistently delivers working silicon on time. Turnkey, a service whereby Socle acts as a virtual SoC logistics department for our customers, can manage the complex interaction between design house, foundry, packaging, and test of the SoC for our customers. Information on Socle can be found at http://www.socle-tech.com.tw.
