New 65nm Mobile Phone Chip Works First Time

Infineon Technologies has announced that the first cell phone chips equipped with its advanced 65-nm CMOS process technology are now available. The components functioned perfectly right from the start, as testing in Duisburg, Munich and Bangalore, India has now shown. The dial-in to different GSM mobile communications networks and the resulting connections worked without a hitch. This new technology features high performance at low power consumption and is the most advanced semiconductor technology for logic circuitry that Infineon is currently preparing for mass production.

First products in this new technology are expected to be market-ready towards the end of 2006.

"The data available today emphasizes the multifold strengths of our alliance strategy resulting in a leading position towards time-to-market, figure-of-merits, and manufacturing flexibility by pooling significant R&D resources and also exploiting a huge amount of intellectual capital," said Prof Dr Hermann Eul, member of the Infineon Management Board and head of the Infineon Communication Solutions Business Group. "Thanks to this technological breakthrough, we have proven that our strategy of innovative integration works and that the number of available functions will increase while the footprint decreases."

The chip just tested puts more than 30 million transistors on a space of just 33mm

Posted to the site on 15th May 2006