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To: Gottfried who wrote (1487)	7/11/2002 10:54:34 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 25522

Japanese 90-nm consortium dubbed ASPLA Semiconductor Business News (07/11/02 10:39 a.m. EST) TOKYO - The joint venture company intended to boost Japanese competitiveness in the area of system-on-chip was unveiled in Tokyo, Thursday today (July 11) according to Reuters reports. As previously reported (see July1 ) a major task for the consortium is the development of process technology at the 90-nm minimum geometry process technology node. The goal is to develop basic process technology and SOC libraries and design methods once and for all to share. Fujitsu Ltd., Hitachi Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and NEC are forming the joint venture and are expected to use a single facility in cooperation with the Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (Starc) consortium. Today it has been announced that the organization is to be called ASPLA for Advanced SoC Platform Corp. and will also include Sony Corp., Sharp Corp., Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd., Rohm Co. Ltd. and Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. as junior partners, according to Reuters. The project will use a clean room purchased from NEC and paid for in part with government funds, the report states. The venture is being characterized as a new business model that the Japanese hope can compete with the fast-moving companies in Taiwan, South Korea and the West. "Our semiconductor business model in Japan right now is the most backward in the world," Keiichi Kawate, a Toshiba executive named to head the venture, is reported as saying. Kawate is also reported saying ASPLA would license its technology openly, but not for free, to foreign companies.