Qualcomm Selects Samsung for New Supply Partnership
November 27th, 2005QUALCOMM, a leading developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and other advanced wireless technologies, today announced a new manufacturing partnership with Samsung Electronics, a leader in advanced semiconductor technology. Samsung will leverage its significant investments in process technology, development and capital in order to provide technology and manufacturing services in advanced CMOS-based processes to QUALCOMM.
QUALCOMM and Samsung’s new foundry partnership expands on the two companies’ existing relationship, and builds upon QUALCOMM’s fabless business model of outsourcing foundry operations to partners such as Samsung. The companies will collaborate on current and future technology needs, with plans including the usage of Samsung’s 90 nanometer (nm) and sub-90 nm nodes to enable manufacturing of leading-edge system-on-a-chip (SOC) products.
