The producer of microprocessors and memory chips company decided to unite their effort to master new technical process ( 32 nm standards and less ).
Besides AMD and Qimonda, in the project, partially financed by the ministry of science and formation of Germany (9 mln. Euro), participate nine additional universities .
The object of uion program, which was called SIMKON, is the simulation, used in the earliest stage of microcircuits design . Thus, companies, which have in German Dresden their own production capacities and equipment , hope to reduce the time expenditures and material resources in the development process and new generations testing . Simulation is conducted at the physical level and covers questions of the materials selection , architectural solutions and technical process.
Using simulation, partners are intended preliminarily to determine and to optimize the production processes. According to the data of source, AMD will use those results for the optimization of the architectures CMOS- transistors for 32 nm standards and less . Qimonda works in the similar direction and it plans to release DRAM chips with the extremely small structures.