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News Release from: MCE Tewkesbury | Subject: IC Nexus sub-100nm ASICs
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 20 October 2006
ASIC deal gives access to Fujitsu
processes
A deal with with Taiwanese company IC Nexus gives European design engineers access to low-cost, low-power and low-leakage sub-100nm ASICs for use in handheld devices.
Specialist ASIC supplier MCE has announced a teaming agreement with Taiwanese company IC Nexus to give European design engineers access to low cost, low power and low leakage sub-100nm ASICs for use in handheld devices Demanding performance specifications for handheld consumer devices (such as cellphones, PDAs, GPS systems and audio/video players) increasingly require the use of the latest fine geometry semiconductor foundry technologies
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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MCE-Tewkesbury is offering to cut the cost and time involved in moving from prototype to production with new chip designs.
These allow ASICs to deliver increased functionality and reduced power consumption (giving extended battery life) from smaller components.
Similar demands are now coming from handheld applications in industrial products (eg monitoring, paging and communication systems) and medical systems (eg blood pressure monitors).
To meet these requirements MCE has teamed up with IC Nexus, a Taiwanese company specialising in sub-100nm design and foundry processes.
Through IC Nexus, MCE is now able to offer clients access to Fujitsu's state-of-the-art 90nm CMOS process and the 65nm process that is in development.
These are ideally suited to the handheld device market because they produce ASICs with extremely low current leakage.
MCE will support design engineers at every stage in the process of specifying, prototyping and final production of the sub-100nm ASICs, based on its unparalleled experience of design and manufacture of such components.
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