Panasonic, Japan’s consumer electronics giant, will “shortly” announce a transition to a 30-nanometer CMOS process for the company’s home-grown digital consumer SoC platform called UniPhier (Universal Platform for High-quality Image Enhancing Revolution), a company spokesman revealed at Panasonic’s booth during CEATEC Japan, a consumer electronics show held here this week.
If true, Panasonic’s aggressive plan for a 30-nm process at its own small Uozu fab in Japan is news. But this is not the first time for the Japanese company to pull such a stunt.
