Freescale semiconductor is an enterprise in motorola company , will be joined to the technological union, headed BY IBM.
Freescale will participate in the development of technology for the production of chips with the 45- nm standards. It also has now the possibility of production for similar chips at the power IBM.
Other participants in the association with IBM: Advanced micro devices(AMD), Sony, Toshiba, Infineon and Chartered semiconductor. Furthermore, each of them has their interest in the collaboration inside this union with other companies. For the majority of them - the participation in it is the advantageous investment of forces and facilities. This is caused by both the complexity of independent development for contemporary chip and by high costs (~3 billions dollars. according to the data of source) the erection of its own production capacities. Thus, working at one project together, these companies can produce development more rapid and it is cheaper than, if each of them worked at solution of problem independently. IBM also reaps the benefit from such joint enterprises, earning on the license deductions and the fees for the technical services.
In such technological unions the company- participants economize their means, but also now and then they encounter the complexities of management for general enterprises. Thus, Freescale was already term of one of such first associations. Partnership was concluded with the companies sTMicroelectronics, Philips and Motorola. In this CP was even one general production unit, enterprise, which the leaders immediately of three companies governed. Recently Philips (NXP semiconductor) expressed the intention to leave this union.