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90nm Multi-Project Wafer Prototyping and Production Service

IMEC announced the extension of its Europractice IC Service with the offering of UMC’s 90nm process technology.
IMEC announced the extension of its Europractice IC Service with the offering of UMC’s 90nm process technology. UMC and Europractice have collaborated closely for many years in offering UMC’s Silicon Shuttle Multi Project Wafer (MPW) platform for prototyping and production services to European companies and academia. The availability of 90nm technology will be of particular interest to European-based companies and institutes with low-volume manufacturing needs, such as universities, research centers, start-up companies, and companies with niche markets.

Europractice IC Service, coordinated by IMEC, offers companies ASIC services to help them bring their products to market quickly and cost-effectively. Under the UMC-IMEC foundry agreement, Europractice customers have easy access to UMC’s advanced technologies for prototyping and low-volume production, including 0.25, 0.18, 0.13 micron and now 90nm technologies.

For smaller scale research or student designs, Europractice offers a very cost-attractive mini@sic prototyping program. This program reduces prototyping costs for small designs to less than 20% of normal foundry shuttle prices.

Felix Hu, General Manager of UMC Europe, said, “UMC shipped its first 90nm wafers in March 2003. This technology is now in high volume production at UMC on both 12" and 8" wafers for more than 50 Logic and RF products. We are pleased to expand our partnership with Europractice to the 90nm node, as the availability of this technology to European universities, start-ups and smaller companies through Europractice will help further extend the benefits of 90nm into the mainstream. ”

Carl Das, Director of the Europractice IC Service, said, “With UMC’s 90nm offering, Europractice shows its continuous commitment to provide deep submicron ASIC design and fabrication solutions to Academia and smaller companies. By combining the cost advantage of MPW prototyping with the successful mini@sic concept, researchers in academia will have now very cost effective access to 90nm.”
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