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News Release from: Silicon Storage Technology
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 22 August 2006
TSMC signs for embedded Flash
Silicon Storage Technology and TSMC have signed a technology development and licensing agreement that will offer the first licensable 90nm embedded Flash technology.
SST (Silicon Storage Technology) and TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) have signed a technology development and licensing agreement that will offer the first licensable 90nm embedded Flash technology Under terms of the agreement, TSMC will license SST's next-generation 90nm SuperFlash technology as part of TSMC's embedded Flash memory portfolio
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 13 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The popularity of today's consumer and mobile electronics devices has created strong demand for many types of embedded memories", said Alan Niebel, CEO, WebFeet Research.
"As these applications continue to increase functionality, the demand for more advanced embedded Flash technologies, like SST's 90nm SuperFlash technology, will be at a premium".
SST's advanced 90nm SuperFlash technology addresses the needs of applications, such as 64bit MCU cores, high-speed ASICs, and multimedia ICs.
This high-performance, high reliability technology uses a split gate, source-side injection, poly-erase memory cell that is capable of true logic VDD read operation to address the demand for lower power and higher density applications.
Samples will be available in 2007.The agreement is the latest between SST and TSMC and marks 10 years of collaboration.
"Our 90nm SuperFlash technology represents a significant extension to our reach in the embedded Flash market", said Bing Yeh, President and CEO of SST.
"The development of this next-generation memory cell is consistent with our roadmap of scaling the SuperFlash technology to finer process geometries".
"TSMC has been an invaluable and strategic partner for SST".
"TSMC is committed to provide the foundry industry's most advanced technologies offers to our customers", said Jason Chen, Vice President of Corporate Development at TSMC.
"Over the years, TSMC and SST's co-operation in the embedded Flash technology area has been well accepted".
"We believe the advancements to 90nm embedded Flash technology will meet the growing requirements for embedded memory business".
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