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RosettaNet Press Release IBM and semiconductor industry leaders collaborate For Release April 11, 2005
Lawrenceville, NJ, USA
Media Contact:
Jack Grasso, Senior Director of Public Relations, Uniform Code Council,
Inc.
RosettaNet, the technology industry’s leading e-business standards consortium, today announced the successful development of a new standard that allows companies in the semiconductor industry to efficiently exchange data that is crucial to engineering, design and manufacturing processes.
Partnerships between semiconductor fabricators (FABs), fabless semiconductor companies (FSCs) and related service providers require the transfer of chip manufacturing data. FSC engineers depend on information gathered when semiconductor chips are manufactured and tested to design their own finished products.
Currently, FABs send this information in a variety of forms and at varying intervals, depending on the customer. These processes create significant overhead by adding cycle time to the total manufacturing process and creating expense because of the inaccuracies and manual methods used to interpret, comprehend and process data. This latest RosettaNet Partner Interface Process ® (PIP ®), called PIP 7C7: Semiconductor Test Data Exchange, represents a dynamic solution to these inefficiencies by providing a common language for the exchange of test data.
IBM Systems and Technology Group, who provided executive sponsorship for this standard, led a team that worked on the design and pilot implementation of this standard. The group represented a broad cross-section of the semiconductor industry, including IBM, TSMC, Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola Semiconductor Product Group), Intel, TI, NEC, National Semiconductor, Agere Systems, Fujitsu, ST Microelectronics, ASE, Amkor, SPIL, and AIT.
“The creation of this standard is the recognition by our industry for the need to provide competitive data transfer services to our customers through a standardized data exchange methodology to help reduce IT costs," said Barbara Wesolowski, Vice-President, Business Information and Transformation, IBM Systems and Technology Group. "At IBM, this PIP is to be implemented to all of our customers starting in 3Q 2005.”
FSCs depend on semiconductor manufacturing data from FABs to design and create finished products, including data from Process Control Monitor (In-Line), Wafer Sort and Final Tests. PIP 7C7 enables real-time business response and provides faster time-to-market capability by converging on a single Extensible Markup Language (XML) format for data exchange.
The standard also improves customer satisfaction through greater visibility into semiconductor manufacturing plants. “The 7C7 validated our new methodology and introduced to us several concepts to help streamline and facilitate the creation of new standards within the RosettaNet community,” said Herman Stiphout, President of RosettaNet.
Further information on the 7C7 can be found at www.Rosettanet.org/standards.
About RosettaNet RosettaNet is a non-profit consortium dedicated to the collaborative development and rapid deployment of open, Internet-based business standards that align processes within the global trading network. More than 500 multinational and regional companies in the computer and consumer electronics, electronic components, semiconductor manufacturing, logistics, and telecommunications industries participate in RosettaNet’s strategic standards and services development. Fortune 1000 companies worldwide have implemented RosettaNet standards, conducting B2B operations that value billions in annual revenues.
RosettaNet is one of the industry's most ambitious standards implementation efforts, reaching the Americas, Australia, Asia, and Europe. To date, the consortium has established several regional affiliate organizations — in the Americas, China, Europe, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan — giving a voice to various business economies seeking to adopt and influence RosettaNet's global standards. Information on RosettaNet’s worldwide activities, including a complete list of member companies and participating organizations, is available at www.RosettaNet.org . RosettaNet is a subsidiary of the Uniform Code Council, Inc. ® (UCC ®).
About IBMIBM develops, manufactures and markets state-of-the-art semiconductor and interconnect technologies, products and services including industry-leading Power Architecture microprocessors. IBM semiconductors are a major contributor to the company’s position as the world's leading information technology company. Its chip products and solutions power IBM eServer and TotalStorage systems as well as many of the world's best-known electronics brands.
IBM semiconductor innovations include dual-core microprocessors, copper wiring, silicon-on-insulator and silicon germanium transistors, strained silicon, and eFUSE, a technology that enables computer chips to automatically respond to changing conditions. More information is available at: http://www.ibm.com/chips. |
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