First Silicon Success on Altera's 90-nm, Low-k Products, built on TSMC’s Nexsys™ 90-nm process

Altera Corporation announced that it achieved first silicon success with the initial member of the Stratix® II FPGA as a result of its close collaboration with TSMC. The Stratix II family, along with the recently announced Cyclone™ II family, is built on TSMC’s Nexsys™ 90-nm process, featuring all-layer copper interconnect and Applied Materials’ production-qualified Black Diamond® low-k dielectric films. After more than three years of extensive collaboration, which paralleled the successful ramp of Altera® devices using TSMC’s 0.13-micron process, the release of the first 90-nm Stratix II devices reinforces that Altera and TSMC have developed a well-defined, proven production methodology.