All other 28nm (and below) players (like Intel, Samsung, IBM, STM) are so called IDMs, offering their production capacity to some interessting high volume customers from time to time too to get a better workload in their fabs.
At least for STM the above statememnt isn't true. And it wasn't true for almost a year.Well, since the helveticoin user is tight lipped I had to search the STmicro press releases:
http://www.st.com/web/en/press/en/t3343
http://www.st.com/web/en/press/en/t3370
Pretty soon anyone in EU-landia could probably order this process through Europractice, the same way as bitfury did.
Quote from: October 18th 2012
Semiconductor technology leaders ST, Soitec and CMP help universities, research labs and companies prototype next generation of Systems-on-Chip
The CMP multi-project wafer service allows organizations to obtain small quantities--typically from a few dozens to a few thousand units--of advanced ICs. The cost of the 28nm FD-SOI CMOS process has been fixed to 18,000 €/mm2, with a minimum of 1mm2.
The CMP multi-project wafer service allows organizations to obtain small quantities--typically from a few dozens to a few thousand units--of advanced ICs. The cost of the 28nm FD-SOI CMOS process has been fixed to 18,000 €/mm2, with a minimum of 1mm2.
http://www.st.com/web/en/press/en/t3343
Quote from: December 11th 2012
Silicon-verified process technology delivers 30% higher speed and up to 50% improvement in power
Measurements on a multi-core subsystem in an ST-Ericsson NovaThor ModAp platform, with a maximum frequency exceeding 2.5Ghz and delivering 800 MHz at 0.6V, are confirming expectations and demonstrating the great flexibility of the technology and the extended voltage range exploitable through DVFS (Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling).
Measurements on a multi-core subsystem in an ST-Ericsson NovaThor ModAp platform, with a maximum frequency exceeding 2.5Ghz and delivering 800 MHz at 0.6V, are confirming expectations and demonstrating the great flexibility of the technology and the extended voltage range exploitable through DVFS (Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling).
http://www.st.com/web/en/press/en/t3370
Pretty soon anyone in EU-landia could probably order this process through Europractice, the same way as bitfury did.
CMP offers access to STMs Multi-Project-Wafer runs for SMEs and academia (comparable to Europractice). STM is probably happy about some money coming from this source to finance the MPW mask costs, because they have not enough own content. MPWs are for prototyping runs only. They are not suitable for volume production.
I'm not sure if STM will do a full-mask (not MPW) tape-out for everybody too. For customers ordering 1000 wafers of course, but for one who orders only 50?
Anyway, from the definition STM is an IDM (Integrated Device Manufacturer) not an "pure play" foundry without own chip products. Did you know that STM is a big customer of GF? The FDSOI technology mentioned above will finally also run in Dresden at the GF fab 1 (under STM licence) for volume production.
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don't be an idiot Sir. You got a @ contacts, ask them self, or are you scare?
