About Chartered Joint Development Alliance

Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., one of the top dedicated semiconductor
foundries, provides leading-edge manufacturing technologies and capacity along with
comprehensive customer support to the world’s leading semiconductor suppliers. With
the collaborative, joint-development approach it helped pioneer, Chartered has
established a new standard for driving innovation and providing flexible sourcing
solutions to meet the evolving needs of fabless and fab-lite companies.
Chartered operates five manufacturing facilities at its Singapore headquarters, including
a state-of-the-art 300-millimeter wafer fab. It supports a worldwide customer base with
production-proven manufacturing processes down to 65nm with a technology roadmap
to 32nm. Chartered’s portfolio of offerings includes manufacturing enhancement
methodologies and value-added solutions that address specific customer requirements,
unique product applications, and the most challenging design issues. Its strategy is
based on offering open and comprehensive solutions, partnering with a wide range of
design enablement partners in EDA, DFM, IP, design services and other links in today’s
semiconductor value chain.
¡ 2007 Revenues: $1.4B USD
¡ President & CEO: Chia Song Hwee
¡ Employees: Approximately 5,800 worldwide
¡ Worldwide Locations: Eight offices in seven countries throughout
North America, Europe and Asia
¡ Stock Information: NASDAQ Stock Market (Nasdaq: CHRT)
Singapore Exchange (SGX-ST: CHARTERED)
Beginning in 2002, Chartered helped break new ground in the foundry industry by
entering into a collaboration with IBM to jointly develop leading-edge manufacturing
technology at 90nm and 65nm. Infineon, Samsung, Freescale and STMicroelectronics
have since entered the joint-development effort to drive shared underlying process
technology for today’s most difficult design and manufacturing challenges down to
32nm. The alliance has been instrumental in accelerating the technology roadmap
offered by Chartered, which began shipping 65nm products in Q2 2007.
Common Platform Technology
From its initial collaboration with IBM, Chartered has been offering
customers unprecedented access to the technology and flexible sourcing
solutions through the Common Platform. The Common Platform alliance, which
now also includes Samsung, leverages joint-process development and cross-fab
manufacturing coordination across all three companies’ facilities to offer a
unique and open global foundry model. Common Platform technology is further
supported by a comprehensive ecosystem of design enablement and
implementation providers from top companies in EDA, IP, libraries and design
services industries. This allows customers to easily source their design in
multiple foundries worldwide and offers unprecedented flexibility and freedom
of choice.

The value proposition behind the Common Platform is recognized by the

industry, and has resulted in leading customers such as Microsoft and
Qualcomm adopting the Common Platform model. In 2006, the partners
reached a major milestone by being the first foundries to deliver working 45nm
Contact Information
Singapore: Technology and Manufacturing Update
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd.
60 Woodlands Industrial Park D
Street Two, Singapore 738406
Chartered’s technology roadmap is customer driven, providing customers with
Tel: 65.6362.2838
Fax: 65.6362.2938 smart choices and valued-added solutions for creating differentiated products.
Its market-focused technologies are optimized for a broad range of leading and
United States: mainstream system-on-chip (SoC) products from graphics chips, gaming
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Inc.
products and display solutions to RFID and wireless applications.
880 N. McCarthy Blvd.
Milpitas, CA 95035, USA In addition to 90nm and 65nm technology running in volume production,
Tel: 1.408.941.1100
Fax: 1.408.941.1101 Chartered also has extensive capacity at the 0.13-micron and higher process
info@charteredsemi.com technologies. It is also the first dedicated foundry to manufacture with
silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. Chartered has invested heavily in the
www.charteredsemi.com latest technologies and equipment to improve yield, productivity and cycle time,
leading to faster and more reliable volume production. The company’s complete
value chain services include design verification, prototyping on the Chartered
Express multiple-project-wafer (MPW) program, and design enablement through
a strategic network of EDA companies, IP suppliers, mask shops, as well as
back-end test and assembly companies.

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