How it started
History
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing was founded in 1987, as a venture that included Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd. The company signed a deal in 1994 with Toshiba for the use of their 0.5 micron process technology.
In 1996, Chartered began a partnership with the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University to develop improvements for the fabrication processes of advanced semiconductors. In 1999, a new 3 year agreement was signed between the three of them for research, development and manufacturing of deepsubmicron semiconductors (DSM).
In 2000 ST Engineering (Singapore Technologies Semiconductors), a subsidiary of Temasek Holdings acquired Chartered.
In 2002, Chartered joined the ARM Foundry Program and in November of that year, it signed a joint development and manufacturing agreement with IBM. The agreement was extended in 2004, and again in 2005 to include the 45-nanometer (nm) bulk CMOS.
CSM was the world's third largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry, with its headquarters and main operations located in the Woodlands Industrial Park, Kranji Singapore. The company was listed on the Singapore Exchange under the trading symbol of CHARTERED, as well as on NASDAQ (CHRT).
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