IBM, Chartered, Samsung Produce Advanced Mobile Technology For Qualcomm

IBM, Chartered, Samsung Produce Advanced Mobile Technology For Qualcomm

Common Platform technology founding members IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced that they have successfully produced 90-nanometer (nm) chips for QUALCOMM Incorporated in their respective 300mm fabs.

Working with QUALCOMM, the Common Platform members have manufactured in volume leading-edge, low-power system-on-chip (SoC) products that support mobile telecommunications technologies. The QUALCOMM chips are being used in cellular phone chipsets and other devices to enable wireless communications worldwide. The Common Platform relationship with QUALCOMM extends past 90nm, to 65nm and beyond

The Common Platform is a game-changing business model jointly developed by IBM, Chartered and Samsung to enable synchronized manufacturing across 300mm fabrication facilities at 90nm, 65nm and 45nm process technologies. Using this new approach, a single design can be multi-sourced to any of the three facilities, making it possible to produce nearly identical chips from any one of several manufacturing facilities around the globe. Because Common Platform technology allows “multi-sourcing,” clients are not tied to a single vendor, but rather have unprecedented flexibility and choice.

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