Intel Invests In New German SiGe Foundry
Electronic News
2/7/01 10:21:00 AM — Communicant Semiconductor Technologies AG today announced its debut as a pure-play foundry producing ICs for wireless, broadband and other communications markets. The Frankfurt (Oder), Germany-based company also disclosed that both Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics (IHP) and Intel Corp. have signed on as strategic investors.
IHP, a microelectronics research and development center also based in Frankfurt (Oder), will provide its silicon-germanium-carbon (SiGe:C) technology and Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel (nasdaq: INTC) will supply its 0.18-micron CMOS technology. Using these technologies, along with its intellectual property portfolio, Communicant plans to offer modular, high-performance SiGe:C BiCMOS and CMOS processes.
Communicant has secured technology-licensing agreements with IHP and Intel, which both took equity positions in Communicant. A $1.5 billion facility will be constructed in Frankfurt (Oder), a town located about 50 miles east of Berlin in the state of Brandenburg.
Communicant is positioning itself as a communication-focused foundry serving fabless design and system houses, as well as the integrated device manufacturing community, said Klaus Wiemer, Communicant’s chief executive officer.
The Communicant fab will being operating in the third quarter of 2002 and production is planned for the first quarter of 2003. At full capacity, the fab will produce 30,000 eight-inch (200mm) wafers per month and prototyping services will be available as early as the third quarter of this year, Communicant said.
“We are excited to participate in this new venture with Communicant. This agreement enables Intel to gain access to foundry capacity for an important emerging technology,” said Mike Splinter, Intel executive vice president and general manager of the Technology and Manufacturing Group, in a statement. “Communicant’s focus on silicon-germanium-carbon technology uniquely positions the new company to serve the growing high performance communications semiconductor market segment.”
Offenbar spielt diese Technik eine wichtige Rolle bei der Kühlung bzw Reduzierung von Hitzeentwicklung bei den neuen 1,5 Gigaherz Prozessoren die in Planung sind bei Intel und AMD´sPalomino.Daher erscheint die heutige Meldung ,die ich bei ragingbull fand,nicht uninteressant.Vielleicht weiss jemand mehr zu der Firma?
Electronic News
2/7/01 10:21:00 AM — Communicant Semiconductor Technologies AG today announced its debut as a pure-play foundry producing ICs for wireless, broadband and other communications markets. The Frankfurt (Oder), Germany-based company also disclosed that both Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics (IHP) and Intel Corp. have signed on as strategic investors.
IHP, a microelectronics research and development center also based in Frankfurt (Oder), will provide its silicon-germanium-carbon (SiGe:C) technology and Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel (nasdaq: INTC) will supply its 0.18-micron CMOS technology. Using these technologies, along with its intellectual property portfolio, Communicant plans to offer modular, high-performance SiGe:C BiCMOS and CMOS processes.
Communicant has secured technology-licensing agreements with IHP and Intel, which both took equity positions in Communicant. A $1.5 billion facility will be constructed in Frankfurt (Oder), a town located about 50 miles east of Berlin in the state of Brandenburg.
Communicant is positioning itself as a communication-focused foundry serving fabless design and system houses, as well as the integrated device manufacturing community, said Klaus Wiemer, Communicant’s chief executive officer.
The Communicant fab will being operating in the third quarter of 2002 and production is planned for the first quarter of 2003. At full capacity, the fab will produce 30,000 eight-inch (200mm) wafers per month and prototyping services will be available as early as the third quarter of this year, Communicant said.
“We are excited to participate in this new venture with Communicant. This agreement enables Intel to gain access to foundry capacity for an important emerging technology,” said Mike Splinter, Intel executive vice president and general manager of the Technology and Manufacturing Group, in a statement. “Communicant’s focus on silicon-germanium-carbon technology uniquely positions the new company to serve the growing high performance communications semiconductor market segment.”
Offenbar spielt diese Technik eine wichtige Rolle bei der Kühlung bzw Reduzierung von Hitzeentwicklung bei den neuen 1,5 Gigaherz Prozessoren die in Planung sind bei Intel und AMD´sPalomino.Daher erscheint die heutige Meldung ,die ich bei ragingbull fand,nicht uninteressant.Vielleicht weiss jemand mehr zu der Firma?
