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Sony, Toshiba, NEC Electronics develop advanced chip platform
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TOKYO - Sony, Toshiba and NEC Electronics, said on Thursday that they had jointly developed technology to mass produce cutting-edge chips.
TOKYO - Sony, Toshiba and NEC Electronics, said on Thursday that they had jointly developed technology to mass produce cutting-edge chips.
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| NEC Electronics and Toshiba are also working to standardise technology to make advanced chips with circuitry width of 45-nanometres or finer with Fujitsu and Renesas Technology Corp. |
The platform developed by the three Japanese companies will be used to make system chips, which combine multiple functions on a sliver of silicon, using 45-nanometre technology, the firms said in a joint press release.
Chip makers worldwide are locked in a race to lower production costs on 90-, 65- and 45-nanometre chips, with the smaller circuitry widths allowing more power per chip for complex devices.
The three companies are developing a platform for low-power system chips, to be completed in early 2007.
Toshiba and NEC Electronics are also working to standardise technology to make advanced chips with circuitry width of 45-nanometres or finer with Fujitsu and Renesas Technology Corp.
One nanometre is a billionth of a metre. -- REUTERS