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Japanese companies may form a super-foundry
News Hitachi, Toshiba and Renesas are considering establishing a communal chip foundry to which each could outsource its semiconductor manufacturing activities, the companies said on Wednesday. Among the chip foundry specialists are Taiwan Semiconductor...
[December 29, 2005, 9:55]
Samsung to share IBM's chips
News Samsung said on Friday that it has simultaneously licensed Big Blue's chipmaking technology, signed on to use IBM Microelectronics' chip foundry service, and joined an IBM-backed partnership focused on future chip-manufacturing processes.
[March 8, 2004, 9:30]
Intel, AMD spar over patent-licensing dispute
News AMD announced on Monday that Intel plans to pull its 2001 cross-licensing patent agreement in the next 60 days, unless concerns surrounding AMD's joint-venture chip foundry are addressed. The joint-chip foundry, Globalfoundries, calls for the...
[March 17, 2009, 7:22]
IBM licenses 45nm technology in China
News SMIC is a chip foundry, meaning that it manufactures chips that other companies design. China is a rapidly growing, strategic marketplace, and SMIC is the largest Chinese foundry," said Kevin Hutchings, IBM's vice president of intellectual property...
[December 27, 2007, 11:08]
IBM to produce Nvidia chips
News Since then, IBM has opened the Fishkill plant as a chip foundry, put in place a programme to license its PowerPC processor and begun to license various chipmaking technologies to outside companies, including Sony.
[March 26, 2003, 7:39]
IBM plans $2.5bn charge, layoffs
News IBM will compliment the foundry service with a new manufacturing and design service for computer products and an expansion of its chip-design services, scheduled for the near future. As part of the new chip foundry service, and an expansion of its...
[June 5, 2002, 8:47]
Digital discusses Alpha, Merced and Compaq merger plans
News Digital is planning to announce a third foundry for the Alpha chip, in addition to an existing deal with Samsung. Copperman would not identify the new foundry. Harry Copperman, senior vice president and group executive of Digital's products...
[April 1, 1998, 10:43]
Transmeta investigating Taiwan foundries
News Among them is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the largest of the independent semiconductor foundries-for-hire, and United Microelectronics (UMC), another major foundry. A deal with TSMC or a similar foundry could help Transmeta...
[August 8, 2000, 10:00]
TSMC discloses chip 'espionage' evidence
News TSMC invented the foundry business, which is the business of making chips for companies that don't want to build their own factories. The world's fifth largest foundry also asked for allegations to be dismissed on the grounds that US courts do not...
[March 25, 2004, 11:27]
AMD and IBM expand alliance
News AMD was also trying to end a doomed relationship with foundry United Microelectronics. Later, AMD also entered into a foundry arrangement with Chartered, an ally of IBM. Under the arrangement, the two will cooperate to devise techniques for...
[August 16, 2005, 10:00]
IBM and AMD form chip alliance
News The deal also marks a break in an alliance between AMD and Taiwan's United Microelectronics, a foundry that makes chips for other companies. Late last year, IBM signed a joint manufacturing and technology licensing deal with Chartered Semiconductor...
[January 9, 2003, 9:32]
AMD to phase out Durons by end of year
News Athlon production, which currently takes place in Dresden, will then get shifted to UMC, a Taiwanese foundry that is engaged with AMD on other deals. Building chips at a foundry costs more than building them in-house, but the early, unexpected move...
[April 19, 2002, 9:59]
IBM: Replacement cycle is headed for the scrapheap
News IBM will not become a large-scale foundry and manufacture chips for a wide variety of customers, Palmisano said. We are not going to become the next foundry or the next Intel," the chief executive said.
[May 15, 2003, 7:50]
HP slashes port cost, stays in wiring closet
News Although the new products extend its Procurve wiring closet range higher, the company is still sticking with Foundry for its high-end core switches. Despite the increase in performance, HP does not intend to take its switches out of the (wiring...
[April 23, 2002, 14:42]
AMD and IBM deepen chip commitment
News IBM provides foundry services, but analysts say they are generally fairly expensive. A foundry that could benefit from the deal is Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor, which struck a deal in 2002 that gives it access to IBM's manufacturing techniques.
[September 22, 2004, 8:30]
IBM reaches chip milestone
News IBM, which recently received the design specifications for the FPGA chip from Xilinx, should begin producing test versions of the chip during the first quarter, said Michael Concannon, vice president of foundry services, IBM Microelectronics.
[December 16, 2002, 7:31]
Sun steps up efforts on open-source chip
News It's using its OpenSparc variant, to be built by a local chip foundry, in a system board it will sell to customers in the telecommunications and data-storage businesses. But when it comes to hardware design, fewer people have expertise, and a chip...
[May 15, 2007, 16:59]
US Report: FTC gives OK to Digital/Intel chip deal
News He added that Digital was not in any other discussion regarding an Alpha foundry. Harry Copperman, an executive vice president at Digital, said as recently as late last month that the company was seeking a third Alpha foundry.
[April 24, 1998, 9:59]
Motorola: New chip will bring GPS to all
News Looking for ways to increase revenue from its chip business following the industrywide slump in 2001, Big Blue established a new foundry program last June that lets customers access its full range of chip technology as well as its chip...
[September 24, 2002, 8:11]
Via takes wraps off 'Joshua' chip
News According to sources, National Semiconductor will act as the foundry for the new chips, although they added that Via is seeking to secure business relationships with other fab facilities as well. While Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) duke it...
[February 22, 2000, 16:33]
