January 14, 2004 – Singapore’s Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing has signed a deal to manufacture 90nm silicon-on-insulator products for IBM, East Fishkill, NY. Production is scheduled to begin at Chartered’s 300mm Fab 7 by mid-2005.
The deal extends a joint development agreement signed in November 2002, under which the companies are making 90nm and 65nm bulk CMOS processes for 300mm wafers.