CAMBRIDGE, England, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ARM [(LSE: ARM - News); (Nasdaq: ARMHY - News)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC processor technology, today announced that Anam Semiconductor and Silterra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. have joined the ARM® Foundry Program. As part of their membership in the Program, Anam has licensed the ARM922T(TM) microprocessor core and Silterra has licensed the ARM7TDMI® microprocessor core.
Anam, based in Korea, and Silterra, based in Malaysia, are the first two foundries in their respective countries to join the ARM Foundry Program, thereby extending local ARM support in the Asia Pacific region. Anam and Silterra join existing ARM Foundry Partners TSMC, UMC, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Tower Semiconductor and AMI as members in the Program, bringing the total number of Program members to seven.
"A growing number of semiconductor developers are looking to gain access to ARM technology in the most cost-effective and flexible manner possible," said Kevin Smith, Foundry Program Licensing manager, ARM. "Anam and Silterra offer these companies a flexible route to fabrication of ARM core-based SoCs through the ARM Foundry Program."
"In today's competitive environment, many customers are looking for more choices and greater flexibility for the design and manufacture of their products," said Victor Kwong, vice president of Design Solutions, Silterra. "As a member of the ARM Foundry Program, Silterra is able to offer the ARM processor core as the cornerstone of our Design Solutions initiative."
"Faster time-to-market is now a critical issue for many semiconductor design companies and to fulfill this requires partnerships to bring all necessary expertise under one roof," said HeungJun Park, director of Design Services, Anam. "By working with the world leader in low-power 32-bit RISC microprocessor cores, we are able to offer leading technology and manufacturing facilities to our customers and together help them get their products to market as smoothly as possible."
Availability
Cores from the respective foundries will be available at the end of Q4 2002. |
