IMEC announces that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company agreed to become a core partner in IMEC's sub-45nm CMOS research program. With TSMC joining IMEC's core program, eight of the world's leading IC manufacturers—Infineon, Intel, Matsushita/Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and TSMC—collaborate in IMEC's 300mm research facilities to conquer the ITRS challenges.
Prof. Gilbert Declerck, president and CEO, IMEC, stated, “We are excited that TSMC has joined our core program. We are looking forward to an extensive, long-term partnership with TSMC on sub-45nm technologies. The collaboration with the world's largest semiconductor foundry in IMEC further paves the way for the IMEC partners to deliver cutting-edge research results of direct relevance for next-generations IC manufacturing."
Dr. Shang-Yi Chiang, senior vice president of research and development, TSMC, said, “TSMC firmly believes in the value of collaboration with other leaders in the IC industry. The industry's advance towards more challenging technologies requires a comprehensive approach and research organizations such as IMEC provide an environment conducting the necessary basic research. We look forward to bringing further contributions to this joint effort from a foundry perspective and believe that our customers will benefit from this collaboration in the near future,” he added, “With TSMC's membership, IMEC has gathered the full scope of companies involved in the processing chain including the leading Integrated Device Manufacturers (IDMs) in the logic as well as the memory arena, the largest foundry and the largest equipment suppliers. This guarantees an optimal platform for collaborative research and fine-tuned results.”
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