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Foundries: TSMC — Common Platforms — UMC — SMIC — GLOBALFOUNDRIES
At the heart of the Common Platform technology relationship is the bulk CMOS process technology that is jointly developed by IBM, Chartered, and Samsung. The group began with joint development at the 90nm process node and has extended the joint development to 65nm, 45nm and 32nm processes. The added benefit is the process compatibility across 3 different fabs. Designs qualified and manufactured at one Common Platform fab can easily be sourced to another, and migration to next-generation nodes is also simplified. In addition to the three Common Platform partners, Infineon, Freescale, STMicroelectronics and Toshiba also joined the Joint process Development Alliance (JDA), but the process compatibility is still among the 3 Common Platform fabs. As a result of the involvement of IDMs, systems companies, and foundries, the jointly developed processes bring a new level of system and application understanding to the silicon process.
Magma has been developing data and reference flow enablement kits for the Common Platform since year 2003, see Magma-Common Platform for further information.
Common Platform and Partners