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Each step optimizing technological standards encounters large quantity of physical obstacles, expenditures for developments and technological rearmament . Semiconductor producers are united in technological alliances, which allow to divide risks and expenditures in the preparation for passage to the new technological standards.
One of such alliances is heads by IBM company , and in its composition enter AMD, Chartered, Infineon, ST, Toshiba, NEC, Freescale and Sony. AMD company already used much IBM development ( collaboration with IBM ), which several years is the technological donor of AMD. In this year The foundry company, which will release AMD processor will also enter in this union.
As reports associate, UMC company can join this technological alliance, headed by IBM. The own potential of UMC is sufficiently high, since the company independently developed and released storage SRAM cells , created with 28 nm technology. However, under the crisis conditions and expenses grow , it is more reasonable to find a group of partners for the development of advanced technologies.
UMC already has a collaboration experience with IBM, and recently it created alliance with Sematech. . Related Products :
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