Crosspoint Solutions Partners with LG Semicon for Manufacturing and Marketing Support.MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 1996--Crosspoint Solutions Inc announced today a new relationship with LG Semicon Co., Ltd. of Korea involving both licensing and manufacturing of Crosspoint Solutions' customer-programmable ASICs. The arrangement provides Crosspoint Solutions with the second foundry for the company's growing product line. Under the terms of the agreement, LG Semicon will provide manufacturing capacity in 0.8- and 0.6-micron, two- and three-layer metal processes. As part of this agreement, LG Semicon receives a limited license to manufacture and market Crosspoint's CP20K field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), as well as rights to develop and market product variations based upon CP20K architecture and technology. Commenting on the agreement, Crosspoint Solutions' vice president of marketing, Mike Levis, said, "We are very pleased to join forces with LG Semicon in this partnership because, when combined with our existing partnership with Hitachi, it provides us with a significant manufacturing capacity that ensures our customers a sure supply of Crosspoint FPGAs. This is especially important as demand for our FPGAs will rapidly grow in the next few years." Chul Ho Lim, general manager of LG Semicon's ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. business unit, added, "We selected Crosspoint Solutions as our prime FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. partner because of their unique architecture and technology. Since Crosspoint Solutions is the only company to offer FPGAs with the same architecture and design methodology as industry-standard mask-programmed gate arrays, we expect they will have strong market appeal and be an attractive complement to LG Semicon's gate array product lines." LG Semicon Co., Ltd., founded in 1989, offers a broad line of VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. devices for use in computers, telecommunications and consumer products. Consolidated total sales for fiscal year in 1994 were $1.8 billion. A leader in CMOS memory (1) A small, battery-backed memory bank in a computer that holds configuration settings. See BIOS setup. (2) Memory made of CMOS. See CMOS. products, the company is also a major supplier of such other products as standard logic, microperipherals, gate arrays, customer-structured arrays and standard cell ASICs, and advanced communications devices for wired and wireless applications. LG Semicon Co., Ltd. is headquartered in Seoul, and has its primary facilities in Cheong-Ju and Gumi, South Korea. Crosspoint Solutions Inc was founded in 1989 to develop and market the first fully Customer Programmable ASICs. The company's FPGAs feature compatible gate array architecture, and employ the same industry-standard EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. (design) tools and libraries as the leading ASIC vendors. The company is headquartered at 694 Tasman Drive, Milpitas, Calif. 95035. LG Semicon Co., Ltd. is a major semiconductor supplier operating across the globe, employing over 8,000 people. With an annual R&D investment averaging 12% of total sales, the company has developed world-class technologies in memories (SRAM See static RAM. SRAM - static random-access memory , DRAM, flash and ROMs), application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs, including gate arrays, standard cell, and full custom devices), and other specialized semiconductor devices such as ICs for personal computers (audio sound generators, LCD panel Also called a "projection panel," it is a data projector that accepts computer output and displays it on a see-through liquid crystal screen that is placed on top of an overhead projector. See data projector. control) and other applications including charge-coupled devices Charge-coupled devices Semiconductor devices wherein minority charge is stored in a spatially defined depletion region (potential well) at the surface of a semiconductor, and is moved about the surface by transferring this charge to similar adjacent wells. (up to 2 million pixels) and 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers. Current ASIC production process technologies include 0.5-micron, 3-layer metal fabricated fab·ri·cate tr.v. fab·ri·cat·ed, fab·ri·cat·ing, fab·ri·cates 1. To make; create. 2. To construct by combining or assembling diverse, typically standardized parts: on 8-inch wafers. Its U.S. subsidiary, LG Semicon America, Inc., is located at 3003 North First Street, San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , CA 95134. CONTACT: Crosspoint Solutions Inc, Michael Levis, 408/324-0200 or Alfaro Company Kim Alfaro, 415/563-4769 or LG Semicon America, Inc. Byung S. Kang, 408/432-5016 |
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