Infineon unveils 65nm handset chip

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Infineon Technologies today unveiled handset chips equipped with its 65nm CMOS process technology and said that products with this new technology are expected to be market-ready towards the end of 2006.

Infineon developed the technology in the 65/45nm research and development alliance ICIS consisting of IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Infineon and Samsung Electronics. The mobile communications chip developed by Infineon was produced in the frame of a manufacturing agreement with Chartered in Singapore. ?The data available today emphasizes the multifold strengths of our alliance strategy resulting in a leading position towards time-to-market, figure-of-merits, and manufacturing flexibility by pooling significant R&D resources and also exploiting a huge amount of intellectual capital,? said Hermann Eul, member of the Infineon Management Board and head of the Infineon Communication Solutions Business Group.

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