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Grace Semiconductor picks up Cypress Semiconductor’s 130nm process |
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Jul 19, 2006 at 05:22 PM |
 Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp the struggling China based foundry has secured the 130nm ‘C8' process technology from Cypress Semiconductor Corp as part of a foundry agreement in which Grace will be able to use the technology on Cypress' programmable, mixed-signal arrays after a successful transfer and manufacturing alliance has seen Grace ship Cypress devices ahead of schedule on an older process node.
"We are pleased with how quickly the team at Grace has been able to ramp to volume production," said Shahin Sharifzadeh, executive vice president of wafer fabs and technology at Cypress. "To get from concept to production in under two quarters far exceeded our expectations." Grace will now become a major supplier of Cypress's programmable SoC's going forward, according to Cypress. The C8 process will be transferred in the third quarter 2006 and after qualification is expected to come on stream in the second quarter of 2007.
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