Oh No! not another chip foundry alliance
Four very big semiconductor companies are pooling their R&D budgets for the development of 32nanometer CMOS process technology.
The participants are Motorola, Philips, STMicroelectronics and - crucially - TSMC, the world's biggest chip foundry. The deal is for five years, and the Fab Four expect to spend $1.4bn by 2005 on the JV. They say the deal is "unprecedented":
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