Pieter Donck - Hardware Conference

Voordelen: illustratieEarly and intensive collaboration is essential,says Chian. It can be many months into achip’s design cycle before specificationsand design become firm or stabilise. Butif Altera were to wait until the chip designstabilises before entering into discussionswith a manufacturer, “we would lose manymonths,” says Chian, which in a timecriticalbusiness like chip design “is aneternity.” Without question, says Chian, thiscollaboration accelerates time to marketSarnoff Europe © 2009Proprietary & Confidential 20