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Joint partnership focuses on 65 nanometre technology for multimedia applications
Analogue Devices, Inc. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company have announced a significant accomplishment in their longstanding relationship.
Analogue Devices, Inc. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company have announced a significant accomplishment in their longstanding relationship. With the application of TSMC's 65nm process technology to ADI's SoftFone baseband processors, designs will benefit from lower cost and better power efficiency-important considerations for advanced multimedia applications in wireless handsets."Analogue Devices and TSMC have been collaborating for 18 years. Today, a wide range of our products-analogue, DSP, radio frequency (RF) and mixed signal-are manufactured by TSMC," said Christian Kermarrec, vice president, RF and wireless systems. "TSMC's pursuit in advanced technology, such as 65nm, has been instrumental in our SoftFone and general purpose DSP roadmaps, helping ADI to achieve continuously improved cost, power consumption and performance.""First time silicon success of Analogue Devices' baseband product on TSMC's65nm process is a testament to our long and strong partnership. The deep and broad collaboration between the two companies starts from the initial design to tape-out to working silicon," said Kenneth Kin, senior vice president of worldwide sales and service for TSMC. "The confluence of ADI's designs and TSMC's robust technologies has resulted in a gamut of new product introductions in the past, and will continue to provide assurance of future silicon success."