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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (8871)	2/12/2004 8:06:28 AM
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Sony, Toshiba aim to be first with 45-nm process By Peter Clarke Silicon Strategies 02/12/2004, 7:02 AM ET TOKYO -- Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. said Thursday (February 12, 2004) that they would develop of 45-nanometer design and manufacturing processes for logic chips together, extending their collaboration for the 90-nm and 65-nm manufacturing nodes. The first results of the collaboration are expected within two years, in 2005, the companies said. They added that they plan to beat the rest of the semiconductor industry to the 45-nm process node and are starting 65-nm designs for application to sample chips "soon". Sony and Toshiba have collaborated on chip manufacturing since May 2001. However the so-called '90-nm' manufacturing process that came into use in 2003 for the EE+GS processor inside Sony's Playstation X entertainment system has been described by an engineering consultancy as not a 90-nm process (see February 5 story). Sony and Toshiba have argued that there is no precise definition of a 90-nm process and that its CMOS4 process is at least as good as other processes described as being at the 90-nm node. The companies are already moving to 65-nm design rules that would be applied to sample products "soon" the companies said. The joint development agreement calls for completion of the project by late 2005, with the ultimate goal of being first to market with 45nm know-how. The project has a budget of 20 billion yen (about US$190 million) and approximately 150 engineers from the two companies are expected to work on the project at Toshiba's Advanced Microelectronics Center in Yokohama, Japan and Oita Operations in Kyushu island of Japan. The companies did not say how closely or distantly they would adhere to the guide lines set out in the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors in their process developments.

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