Re: Back from the dead..
all-
I found the company at
<http://www.semiconductor-technologies.com.au/default.htm>
but didn't contact them. Thanks for the pointer.
-John
At 02:57 PM 2/11/2000 EST, Wayne Morellini wrote:
>Thought I'd drop these hopefuls in.
>
>First somebody mentioned SDRAM needing a big cache system to support, and
>that it was unsuitable for Misc type applications. Well it doesn't and can
>do 2-1-1 timming. It is unlikely that every fetch will be out of sequence
>in misc so there is a bonus for misc chips, over pdram (which at least in
>consumer terms seems to be getting expensive). If DDR Dram was meant I am
>unfamiliar with the exacts but as I understand it it uses the same scheme as
>SDRAM but that once accessed the speed is doubled. I assume that the setup
>timing is the same as SDRAM (but then again I don't know).
>
>It has been said that chips like the f21 have to be manufactured in 100,000
>(or 1 Million lots). On page 37 of January the 16th's Australian newspaper,
>in the Australianit section, talks about production runs starting AT 5000
>chips. It concerns plans by a Korean company Acqutek (formerly Anam
>Semiconductor) to establish a global custom silicon design studio in
>Melbourne (Aus, sorry ITV) under a subsidary called Semiconductor
>Technologies Australia. Their customers would get the chips designed and
>manufactured through them, they have an extensive ASIC library to facilitate
>this. The thing is that this amount of chips is small enough for small
>groups like Ting, ITVcorp to swing (if they accept completed designs for
>manufacturing). It might even be possible to submit an x21 design as an
>ASIC in their library.
>
>Have fun
>
>Wayne.
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