Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Imagination Technologies from the U.K. jointly announced March 25 a collaborative technological project to boost mobile phone performance.
Headquartered in Hsinchu City in northern Taiwan, TSMC is the world’s leading dedicated semiconductor foundry, while Kings Langley-based Imagination is a global front-runner in creating and licensing solutions in multimedia, processor and communication technologies. The firm is also a member of TSMC’s Soft-Internet Protocol Alliance program.
“We are pleased to be working with Imagination to understand how best to use its PowerVR graphics processing units to work with us to optimize future generations of our most advanced process technologies and advanced system design techniques,” said TSMC Vice President of R&D Cliff Hou.
“Many of our licensees rely on TSMC to provide them with leading edge low power, high performance silicon foundry capabilities,” said Hossein Yassaie, chief executive officer of Imagination.
“We are delighted to announce our strengthening relationship with TSMC, and look forward to seeing the fruits of these projects benefitting our many mutual customers,” he added.
As part of the deal, the two partners will develop highly optimized reference design flows and silicon implementations using the British firm’s PowerVR Series 6 GPUs combined with TSMC’s manufacturing technologies, including 16-nanometer FinFET process technology.
The two will jointly create fully characterized reference system designs, utilizing high bandwidth memory standards and TSMC’s 3-D IC technology to demonstrate new levels of system performance and capabilities. (SDH)
Write to Meg Chang at sfchang@mofa.gov.tw