Infineon Develops 65 Nanometer Cell Phone Chip

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5:30 am on May 15, 2006 | Category: Wireless Technology, Cellular

German chipmaker, Infineon revealed last Friday that it has successfully completed trial of its new 65 nanometer chip for mobile phones.

The chip was developed in partnership with IBM, Samsung, and Chartered Semiconductor, and is expected to hit the market by the end of 2006. To put the size into perspective, it is small enough to squeeze more than 30 million transistors into a space of 33 square millimeters.

Chipmakers are constantly striving to create smaller and smaller chips, in their quest to build smaller, cheaper, and more advanced mobile devices.

Infineon is the second company, after San Diego-based Qualcomm, to successfully develop a 65 nanometer cell phone chip.