Infineon Broadens Availability of Embedded Flash Process
December 20 2007 - 8:00AM
Marketwired
NEUBIBERG, GERMANY (NYSE: IFX) today announced an agreement with
IBM to broaden the availability of Infineon's proven, high-volume
Embedded Flash process. Infineon's 130nm Embedded Flash technology
will be licensed to IBM and will be available for new chip designs
manufactured by IBM in North America. Additionally, Infineon will
utilize IBM foundry services for future products based on this
process.
The Infineon 130nm Embedded Flash process, which has been in
volume production at Infineon plants since early 2006, is used for
advanced microcontroller chips across applications ranging from
automotive systems to low-power chip card devices. Along with
related Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) intellectual property also
licensed to IBM, the 130nm Embedded Flash process expands IBM's
foundry capability to address applications requiring custom logic
and high-density flash memory on a single chip.
"We are pleased to extend our long history of collaboration and
technical development with IBM through this licensing and foundry
agreement," said Peter Bauer, Member of the Management Board,
Executive Vice President, Head of Automotive, Industrial &
Multimarket business group at Infineon Technologies. "With this
collaboration, Infineon leverages the value of its own
manufacturing IP, gains a new source for volume manufacturing, and
strengthens our working relationship with a long-term partner."
"We are broadening our semiconductor-offering portfolio by
collaborating with Infineon, one of the world leaders of Embedded
Flash technology," said Steve Longoria, vice president for
Semiconductor Solutions, IBM Global Engineering Solutions. "This
licensing agreement leverages our current technology base and
complements our analog and mixed signal expertise."
Integration and qualification of the process in IBM's 200mm
semiconductor fab in Burlington, Vermont, has already begun, and
preliminary design kit availability is planned for the second half
of 2008.
About Infineon
Infineon Technologies AG, Neubiberg, Germany, offers
semiconductor and system solutions addressing three central
challenges to modern society: energy efficiency, communications,
and security. In the 2007 fiscal year (ending September), the
company reported sales of Euro 7.7 billion (including Qimonda sales
of Euro 3.6 billion) with approximately 43,000 employees worldwide
(including approximately 13,500 Qimonda employees). With a global
presence, Infineon operates through its subsidiaries in the U.S.
from Milpitas, CA, in the Asia-Pacific region from Singapore, and
in Japan from Tokyo. Infineon is listed on the Frankfurt Stock
Exchange and on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker symbol:
IFX).
Further information is available at www.infineon.com.
This news release is available online at
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