Renesas Ties Up With TSMC + Facebook Smartphone

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(1) Junko Yoshida, Renesas, TSMC Tout Licensable MCU Platform Using 40-nm eFlash. EETimes, May 28, 2012.
http://www.eetimes.com/electroni ... -using-40-nm-eFlash

My comment:
(a) For MCU, see microcontroller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcontroller
(sometimes abbreviated µC, uC or MCU)
(b) Tsuruoka, Yamagata
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuruoka,_Yamagata
(c) News release: Renesas Electronics and TSMC Collaborate to Construct Ecosystem for Microcontrollers; Aiming to expand MCU market by integrating the companies' world-leading technologies. Renesas and TSMC, May 28, 2012.
http://www.renesas.com/press/news/2012/news20120528.jsp
(d) Renesas Electronics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renesas_Electronics
(section 1 History: Renesas Technology was established in 2003, as a joint venture of Hitachi, Ltd and Mitsubishi Electric; in 2010 NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology merged forming Renesas Electronics which became the fourth largest semiconductor company according to iSuppli published data)

* RENESAS stands for RENaissancE Semiconductor for Advanced Solutions.
(e) This is the first step of Renesas' restructuring. Thus, more to come.


(2) Nick Bilton, Worried About Its Mobile Future, Facebook Looks to Build a Smartphone. New York Times, May 28, 2012.

Quote:

"Employees of Facebook and several engineers who have been sought out by recruiters there [Facebook], as well as people briefed on Facebook's plans, say the company [Facebook] hopes to release its own smartphone by next year.

"The Web site AllThingsD reported last year that Facebook and HTC had entered a partnership to create a smartphone, code-named Buffy, which is still in the works. Now, the company has been going deeper into the process, by expanding the group working on Buffy, and exploring other smartphone projects too

My comment: There is no need to read the rest.