Posted on Wednesday, January 26 2011 @ 0:45 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Reuters
reports Toshiba is in talks to outsource production of 28-40nm system chips to Globalfoundries, while low-cost fabrication will likely be outsourced to Samsung.
"We had been considering outsourcing production to Samsung Electronics Co and GlobalFoundries since last year," a Toshiba official told Nikkei.
Toshiba is trying to outsource fabrication of advanced products with circuit widths of 28-40 nanometers to save on hefty R&D and production costs and have its engineers focus on design, the paper said.
Samsung will likely handle low-cost fabrication of Toshiba's mainline image-processing chips, while GlobalFoundries will churn out semiconductors using the latest technologies, the Nikkei reported.
