Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Inc. (CSM), was a Singaporean semiconductor company.
History
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing was founded in 1987, as a venture that included Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd.[1] The company signed a deal in 1994 with Toshiba for the use of their 0.5 micron process technology.[2]
In 1996, Chartered began a partnership with the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University to develop improvements for the fabrication processes of advanced semiconductors. In 1999, a new 3 year agreement was signed between the three of them for research, development and manufacturing of deepsubmicron semiconductors (DSM).[3]
In 2000 ST Engineering (Singapore Technologies Semiconductors), a subsidiary of Temasek Holdings acquired Chartered.[2]