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News Release from: PMC-Sierra
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 December 2001
TSMC is a fine process partner for
PMC-Sierra
PMC-Sierra and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) are to collaborate on SoC products using advanced 0.13-micron technologies.
TSMC provides a fine PMC-Sierra and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) are to collaborate on SoC products using advanced 0.13-micron technologies PMC-Sierra's system-on-chip devices demonstrate the highest levels of integration using CMOS technologies, supporting multiple 3.125Gbit/s serial links, SSTL2 interfaces, more than 12Mbit of embedded SRAM, RISC cores and greater than 4 million logic gates on a single chip
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Jan 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Our 0.13-micron process is the industry's most advanced technology in volume production", said Rick Tsai, TSMC president.
"To date, we have delivered 33 fully functional 0.13-micron products to our customers and expect to receive over 60 production tapeouts by the end of the year.
Our process technology roadmap helps companies ramp leading-edge architectures, such as PMC-Sierra's MIPS-based processor products, quickly to volume production".
TSMC's advanced 0.13-micron process features a complete technology family, including core, high-performance, ultra-high-speed and low-power offerings.
The 0.13-micron technology platform supports logic, embedded SRAM, embedded Flash, and mixed-signal/RF technologies for system-on-chip applications.
The process features copper interconnects and low-K dielectrics from reduced interconnect delay.
"PMC-Sierra and TSMC are responding to our customers' demands for higher levels of integration without a compromise of high power expenditure and large footprint", said Greg Aasen, chief operating officer at PMC-Sierra.
"We remain committed to providing leading-edge, low-power, high-density and performance solutions on the proven CMOS technology platform.
As the leader in 0.13-micron manufacturing, TSMC continues to offer a technology roadmap that keeps in step with our device innovation that includes some of the most integrated semiconductors for the Internet infrastructure".
PMC-Sierra is among the first companies to implement 0.13-micron system-on-chip designs with TSMC's process technology.
PMC-Sierra has used the process to develop the RM7000B (64bit MIPS-based processor with clock speeds up to 500MHz) and the semiconductor industry's highest MIPS multiprocessor architecture for the communications market the RM9000x2 (dual CPU cores running at 1GHz).
PMC-Sierra is also working with TSMC to port future products to TSMC's latest process technologies, including 0.10-micron.
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