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For Immediate Release
ARM
and UMC Announce Foundry Program for Advanced SoC Solutions
CAMBRIDGE, UK and SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Feb. 28, 2000 – ARM [(LSE:ARM);
(Nasdaq:ARMHY)] and UMC today announced they have signed an agreement
to enable UMC customers to utilize ARM?intellectual property (IP)
for advanced system-on-chip (SoC) solutions. This new program
will provide UMC's foundry customers who are pursuing emerging, high-growth
markets, with easy access to ARM processor cores on a per-use basis.
"We're
experiencing a strong demand for ARM solutions from foundry customers,"
said Reynette Au, vice president of Worldwide Marketing, ARM.
"Many of these customers are aggressively pursuing advanced SoC
designs in emerging market segments, and our partnership with an
industry leading semiconductor foundry like UMC will enable these
companies to get into production with ARM core-based designs as
soon as possible."
"ARM
has been one of the most demanded cores amongst our customer base,
and we are delighted to expand our long-standing relationship with
ARM to enable more widespread use of ARM cores," said Jim Kupec,
president, UMC (USA) and head of Worldwide Marketing and Sales.
"This foundry program will allow us to provide our customers with
access to ARM cores, enabling faster time-to-market for critical
market segments. Time-to-market is the key requirement of
UMC customers that motivated us to further expand our Gold
IP™ portfolio with this innovative program with ARM.
As the first foundry to offer ARM cores, UMC will now be able to
offer its leading-edge processes to customers that require an ARM7TDMI
core."
"SSL
is delighted to be partnering with ARM," said Kevin Fielding, COO
of SSL. "Availability of the ARM license is key to SSL as it is
the preferred choice of processor for Wireless Internet devices
by our OEM customer base worldwide. A strong and lasting partnership
with ARM allows our mutual customers the flexibility to deploy Wireless
Internet Platform IP with the ARM processor core, and source from
UMC."
"We are excited to be one of the first UMC customers to utilize the ARM7TDMI
core in this innovative model for our advanced ADSL products," said
Mike Gulett, president and chief
operating officer, Virata. Obviously, ARM has been extremely
successful at garnering design wins across multiple application segments,
and it is clear from UMC's rapid growth that the foundry model is
taking hold. Thus, we see this as a program that will benefit
the industry and our customers."
With
this new foundry program, ARM and UMC will work together to reinforce
the ARM architecture's acceptance as the industry's leading 16/32-bit
RISC embedded processor core.
ARM
continues to meet the needs of its partners, and of the embedded
processor industry, by offering complete SoC solutions including
processor cores, peripheral IP, development tools, applications
software, EDA tools and design services. The ARM architecture is
well supported by semiconductor and system manufacturers, real-time
operating system providers, third-party toolchain developers, application
software providers and ARM design centers. The combination
of UMC's world-class process technology and broad customer base,
with ARM's industry-leading RISC processor technology, will allow
the two companies to work together to enable their customers to
produce leading-edge SoC devices, facilitating rapid growth in a
wide range of emerging applications.
About
ARM
ARM, a leading intellectual property (IP) provider, licenses high-performance,
low-cost, power-efficient RISC processors, peripherals, and system-chip
designs to leading international electronics companies. ARM
also provides comprehensive support required in developing a complete
system. ARM's microprocessor cores are rapidly becoming the
volume RISC standard in such markets as portable communications,
hand-held computing, multimedia digital consumer and embedded solutions.
More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com.
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