(May 24, 2007) EAST FISHKILL, NY — IBM, its Common Platform partners Charted Semiconductor Manufacturing (Singapore) and Samsung Electronics (Seoul, South Korea), and joint development alliance (JDA) partners Infineon Technologies (Munich, Germany) and Freescale Semiconductor (Austin, TX) signed a series of JDAs for 32-nm semiconductor process development and manufacturing. This is the fourth development node on which the partners have collaborated.