Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Redirected from Chartered Semiconductor)
Jump to: navigation, search
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing
Type Public (SGX: C27),
(NASDAQ: CHRT)
Founded 1995
Headquarters Flag of SingaporeWoodlands, Singapore
Key people Ho Ching, Chairman, and Chia Song Hwee, CEO
Industry Semiconductor integrated circuitry
Revenue SGD1.435 billion (2006)
Employees 4,681
Website Main Corporate


Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing SGX: C27 NASDAQ: CHRT (abbreviated CSM) is the world's fourth largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry, with its headquarters and main operations located in the Woodlands Industrial Park, Kranji Singapore. The company is listed on the Singapore Exchange under the trading symbol of CHARTERED, as well as on NASDAQ (CHRT).

Chartered provides comprehensive wafer fabrication services and technologies to semiconductor suppliers and systems companies. Chartered's customer base is primarily high-growth, technologically advanced companies operating in the communication, computer and consumer sectors. It does not provide design services and works from customers' designs to produce communications chips.

Besides its own fabs, Chartered operates joint venture facilities with other firms, it offers chip assembly and test services through sister firm STATS ChipPAC. Chartered owns 5 fabrication facilities, all of which are located in Singapore, including the newest, Chartered's first 300-mm facility which started commercial shipment in June of 2005.

The other major semiconductor foundries include TSMC and UMC.

In 2006 AMD announced that it will manufacture CPU's with Chartered on a 65 nanometer process. It also has alliances with IBM, Infineon, Samsung and Agere Systems.



 This article about a technological corporation or company is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
 This Singaporean corporation or company article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartered_Semiconductor_Manufacturing"
Advanced Search
Included Web Search Engines


Safe Search

close

Top Matching Results

Occasionally Search.com will highlight specialized results that are based on the context of your query. Examples of specialized results include specific links to news, images, or video.

Top Matching Results may highlight information from other Search.com pages, content from the CNET Network of sites, or third party content. The listings are based purely on relevance. Search.com does not receive payment for listings in this section but our partners that provide this data may get paid for listing these products.

Sponsored Links

This section contains paid listings which have been purchased by companies that want to have their sites appear for specific search terms and related content. These listings are administered, sorted and maintained by a third party and are not endorsed by Search.com.

Search Results

Search.com sends your search query to several search engines at one time and integrates the results into one list which has been sorted by relevance using Search.com's proprietary algorithm. You can customize the list of search engines included in your metasearch from the preferences.

The search engines that are used in your metasearch may allow companies to pay to have their Web sites included within the results. To view the Paid Inclusion policy for a specific search engine, please visit their Web site. Search.com does not accept payment or share revenue with any search engine partner for listings in this section.