Panasonic skip 90 nanometer process production will be 65 nm DVD chip

Japan Matsushita Electric (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.) will take a strategic action, jumping from 130 nm to 65 nm process, began mass production of 65 nanometer chip. This allows the company to skip the 90 nanometer stage.

Panasonic "from now on will use 65 nanometer process design all the main system on chip (SoC) LSI." Susumu, senior manager of Panasonic's technology, said he was president of Panasonic's semiconductor company, Koike.

SONY (Sony) and Toshiba (Toshiba) and other consumer IC manufacturers have announced the development of 65 nanometer process technology, but has not yet started mass production. Panasonic in October in Japan Uozu City 300 mm wafer was completed, ahead of schedule for two months. "I think that we have entered the 65 nanometer era ahead of other companies to start mass production system chip LSI, especially in low power technology." Koike representation.

Koike pointed out that in the assessment of the 90 nm node, Matsushita believes that "market prospect is not very favorable." He stressed: we have completed the development of 90 nanometer process technology, so we can (easily) jump to the 65 nanometer." Panasonic partners to develop 65 nanometer technology is Renesas Technology (Renesas Technology).

The first Matsushita 65 nm LSI chips will be used in DVD products. The first chip will use 677 pin BGA package. Second chips will be shipped early next year. In addition to their own use, Panasonic plans to sell.

Panasonic through technology upgrades to continue to reduce the number of chips needed by the system. In 2000 0.25 micron process requires the use of the chip, in 2006 when using the 65 nanometer process requires only 1 chips.

Panasonic has at its Uozo factory investment of approximately $1 billion 100 million to establish 6500 wafers per month. The company plans to run the plant at full capacity in 2007 or 2008. The plant has the potential to add 5500 wafers per month, bringing the monthly production capacity up to 12000.