Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing

Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, 2009 was the world's third largest contract manufacturer of semiconductor products ( Foundry ). Since January 2010, the company is part of the contract manufacturer Globalfoundries.

Structure and partnerships

The company headquarters and all manufacturing facilities were located in Singapore. Chartered operating five factories for the processing of 200 mm wafers and one for 300 - mm wafers with feature sizes to 65 nanometers. In the latter, the company worked closely with IBM and Infineon and Samsung; IBM made ​​it both CPUs for the game console Xbox 360 as well as from the second half of 2006 Cell processors. In addition, it also provided for processors AMD ago. 2008 Broadcom and Qualcomm contributed to more than 10 % to the revenue.

Ownership

In September 2009, the Advanced Technology Investment Company ( ATIC ) announced the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, to have signed a binding agreement providing for the acquisition of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing by ATIC. ATIC already owns a majority stake in the Foundry GlobalFoundries.

On 13 January 2010 GlobalFoundries announced the integration of Chartered known to the company.