Things are obviously going well for Integrated Device Technology Inc’s WinChip C6+ low-power Pentium-with-MMX compatible processor because it has now signed to use IBM Corp as a foundry for the part which it launched in September (CI No 3,268). IDT has already built a new facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, to manufacture the party in addition to its San Jose fab. MIPS RISC fabricator IDT says the IBM agreement will enable it to meet all of its chip production schedules. WinChip was designed by Santa Clara-based IDT’s Centaur Technology Inc subsidiary set-up by former head of IBM Corp’s Austin chip labs Glenn Henry. IDT is targeting the 0.25 micron market for sub-$1,000 PCs and the sub-$2,000 notebook market
