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Ericsson Mobile and
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ST-NXP Wireless join for high-tech,
high-quality
STMicroelectronics and Ericsson to create customer value and continue to
announced an agreement to merge deliver rapid innovation,” said Carlo
components,
Ericsson Mobile Platforms and ST-NXP Bozotti, President and CEO of ST. “In
Wireless into a joint venture. The 50/50 April, we announced a plan to join
assemblies and
joint venture will have the industry’s wireless resources with NXP to strengthen
tailor-made systems
strongest product offering in our wireless business and enhance our
semiconductors and platforms for mobile leadership position in a sector which we
applications and will be a supplier to have targeted for strong organic and
Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG and external growth and substantial expansion
Sharp. The fabless joint venture will of financial returns.”
employ almost 8,000 people with pro Frans van Houten, CEO of NXP, said:
forma 2007 sales of USD 3.6B. ST is “We understand the desire of ST to call
expected to exercise its option to buy our 20 percent stake in order to expand
NXP’s 20 percent of ST-NXP Wireless the ST-NXP Wireless joint venture with
before the closing of this transaction. Ericsson. We support this next step that
In the joint venture, ST contributes its Ericsson and ST are taking to create the
multimedia and connectivity solutions as global leader in wireless semiconductors.”
well as a complete 2G/EDGE platform The joint venture will rely on its
and strong 3G offering, including complete platform offering, which will
customer relationships with Nokia, include modems, multimedia and
Samsung, and Sony Ericsson. Ericsson connectivity solutions for 2G/EDGE, 3G,
contributes its 3G and LTE platform HSPA and LTE technologies. It will also
technology as well as customer include all appropriate hardware,
relationships with Sony Ericsson, LG and software and support to enable handset
Sharp. The joint venture, staffed by manufacturers to develop mass market
proven professionals across all functional products. Ericsson Mobile Platforms has
areas, is designed for long term stability state of the art mobile modem design and
in its original structure, and is set to mobile terminal architecture expertise
become an industry leader in product and ST-NXP Wireless brings vast
research, as well as design, development, experience in wireless semiconductor
and the creation of mobile platforms and development, including an industry
wireless semiconductors. leading ASIC, ASSP, Application
“By combining the complementary Processor and connectivity portfolio and
strengths and product offerings of hardware assembly and testing.
Ericsson and ST in platforms and The business in the 50/50 joint venture
semiconductors the joint venture is well will be led by a development and
positioned to become a world leader,” marketing company with approximately
said Carl-Henric Svanberg, President and 7,000 people employed. This company
From planning
CEO of Ericsson. will be consolidated by ST and Ericsson
“ST is taking another bold step. By will account for it using the equity
to production
combining two industry leading method. A separate platform design
operations, we will create a world leader company, with approximately 1,000
in mobile platforms and semiconductor people employed, will provide platform
solutions with even stronger capabilities designs to the development company.
Oerlikon Mechatronics AG
Hauptstrasse 1a
TSMC approves $795 million
P. O. Box 128
CH-9477 Trübbach
capital spending
Tel. +41 81 784 64 00
Fax +41 81 784 64 01
TSMC’s board approved a large sum to venture into 45/40nm CVMOS processes and
info.mechatronics@oerlikon.com
MEMS which is part of a previous announced capital expenditure for 2008. The
www.oerlikon.com/mechatronics
majority of this money is planned to expand the 45/40nm manufacturing capacity of
its 300mm fabs. Some of the money goes to it’s 200mm fab equipment.
Moreover, an upgrade of its 350nm logic process capacity to MEMS is planned.
TSMC has been active in MEMS foundry production for quite some time and,
according to the company, MEMS grows at an annual rate of 13%.
Mid-September 2008
www.euroasiasemiconductor.com
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