The 'big man' alliance produced 32nm chips

On December 18, 7 " big guys" in the chip manufacturing sector, including IBM, Toshiba, AMD, Samsung, Chartered, Infineon and Freescale, officially joined hands to jointly research chip manufacturing on technology lines. 32-nanometer.

Research shows that the chip manufactured on a 32nm technology line can carry on to more than one billion transistors. The more transistors, the stronger the chip, but the production cost will increase.

Therefore, analysts say that the companies coming to unify the 32nm chip manufacturing alliance is willing to contribute to reducing the investment costs of research and production.

Analyst Malcolm Penn said the 32nm chip manufacturing alliance is a clear demonstration of cooperation in competition between firms.

'The chip industry needs a huge amount of investment every two years to promote new applications. However, the investment cost of building a new chip production line can be said to be equivalent to the production cost of a fleet of 12 A380 Super Jumbos ' aircraft .

The contract of cooperation with the design of 32nm chip development and production by the end of 2010.

Meanwhile, the giant Intel still alone a battle line does not shake hands with any firm. According to Mr. Penn, the reason Intel can do so is because it only focuses on the field of microprocessor chips for PCs. 'It is a market where competitiveness is not high. It is not difficult to understand when Intel is absent from the alliance. '

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