EAST FISHKILL, N.Y. - IBM announced Wednesday the signing of advanced technology agreements with its Common Platform technology partners Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and Samsung Electronics, as well as joint-development alliance partners Infineon Technologies AG and Freescale Semiconductor.
The joint development agreements will now include 32-nanometer(nm) bulk complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process technologies and joint development of process design kits (PDKs) to support that technology.
The companies’ plan to use their combined resources to design, develop and manufacture advanced technology through 2010.