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Chartered Semiconductor has made an investment in Taiwan-based SOCLE Technology Corporation, known for its system-on-chip (SoC) design services using ARM cores and developing ARM-based platforms. Financial terms of the investment were not announced.

“SOCLE has developed a strong expertise in helping customers develop complex SoC designs, and its embedded platforms are production-proven. Its experience in hardening ARM cores and developing ARM-based platforms is especially appealing to our customer base,” said Kay Chai “KC” Ang, Senior Vice President of worldwide sales and marketing for Chartered. “As an investment for Chartered, we believe SOCLE has a solid business model and is well-resourced to address new opportunities.”

“Chartered’s management experience and success in working with companies doing advanced IC design will be of great value to SOCLE as we plan our next phase of growth. We appreciate the confidence Chartered has demonstrated in us as both a strategic supplier of services to its customer base, as well as in our business model and potential to expand,” said David Lyou, President and CEO of SOCLE.