http://www.charteredsemi.com/media/c..._microsoft.asp
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/s...leID=186500351
http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/sho...leID=186500360
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/s...7/daily71.html
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/...50&newsLang=en
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/...38&newsLang=en
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing shares was up 4 cents at $10.11
in after-hours trading Thursday. After the closing bell, the company
said it signed an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to manufacture CPU
products for Microsoft's Xbox 360 game consoles. Financial terms were
not disclosed. Production is expected to begin in the first quarter of
2007. Separately, Chartered Semiconductor also said it has licensed the
90-nanometer Silicon-on-Insulator technology from International
Business Machines . Financial terms were not disclosed. Singapore-based
Chartered said the agreement allows it to expand its use of the
technology to areas such as consumer, multimedia, communications,
automotive and industrial applications.
[Quote]:
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing CHRT (SGX-ST:CHARTERED), one of
the world's top dedicated semiconductor foundries, has signed an
agreement with Microsoft for the manufacturing of CPU products -- using
65-nanometer (nm) Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) semiconductor technology
-- for Microsoft's Xbox 360 game consoles. Production is expected to
begin in the first quarter of 2007, and will support the Xbox 360's
growing demand and expanding market reach. The announcement follows
Chartered's successful manufacturing of 90nm SOI CPU products for the
Xbox 360 console's launch, through an agreement with IBM.
"We look forward to working with Chartered on the production of such an
important component of our Xbox 360 system," said Larry Yang, General
Manager of Xbox Console Development at Microsoft. "Chartered's ability
to demonstrate the manufacturability of IBM's advanced SOI technology
in Fab 7 was key to our selection. We plan to continue with our
strategy of dual sourcing from Chartered and IBM's fabs, which are
operationally aligned and compatible, to give us the consistent product
quality and flexibility we will need."
"We are excited to expand our manufacturing relationship with Microsoft
and leverage the innovative 65nm SOI technology made available to us
through our agreement with IBM," said Kay Chai "KC" Ang, senior vice
president of fab operations at Chartered. "This is both a recognition
of Chartered's 300mm manufacturing excellence and increasing customer
confidence in our ability to enable cutting-edge technologies as
products transition to 65nm. By working closely with IBM to enable
manufacturing compatibility and dual-sourcing capability, our goal is
to continue to be a reliable manufacturing source to Microsoft."
"Together, Chartered and IBM offer a unique dual source capability that
delivers superior redundancy and flexibility," said Jim Comfort, vice
president, Microsoft Client Executive, IBM. "Chartered's decision to
adopt our advanced Silicon on Insulator technology at 65nm is further
evidence of the success of the IBM/Chartered Common Platform strategy."
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to keep this relavant to the ATI newsgroup: when will 65nm Xenos GPUs
start rolling from TSMC or whoever ?
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