Dream Chip Technologies joined Samsung Foundry's Design Solution Partner (DSP) Program

Hannover, Germany, October 8^th, 2019 – Dream Chip Technologies, a leading address in Europe for automotive SoC developments targeting automotive safety solutions and autonomous driving, today announced that the company has joined Samsung Foundry's Design Solution Partner (DSP) program.

In the partnership with Samsung Foundry business, Dream Chip is now able to offer total ASIC solutions from specification to volume production for their SoC customers including latest semiconductor nano technologies like 8 nm and beyond. This opens new possibilities for the German and European car manufacturers as well as the Automotive Tier 1 suppliers to be prepared for the upcoming challenges in the decade of autonomous and electrical driving.

With more than 100 engineers located in its engineering sites in Hanover, Hamburg, Braunschweig (Germany) and in Eindhoven (The Netherlands), Dream Chip offers complex SoC solutions for all industries including IoT applications also in technology nodes like 28 and 18nm FDSOI as well as 14nm and 8nm FinFET which enables customers to design very competitive ASIC solutions.

“We are really proud to join the Samsung Design Solution Partner Program”, said Peter Schaper, CEO of Dream Chip,”as this is a very important milestone in our more than 20 years history of working with the Samsung team. This partnership between Samsung, the semiconductor technology leadership company, and Dream Chips’ outstanding engineering capabilities will be an excellent opportunity for European customers to start new ASIC designs and to outperform the competition.”

“We are pleased to have Dream Chip Technologies joining our DSP program,” said Axel Fischer, vice president and head of Foundry at Samsung Semiconductor Europe. “We believe this collaboration will provide our customers an easy, fast and reliable access to competitive design solutions that are tailored to fit our foundry process technologies."

Dream Chip Technologies will be presenting at this year’s Samsung Foundry “SAFE” Forum in Santa Clara, USA on October 17^th and also on November 13^th in Shanghai, China. The forum brings together Samsung Foundry and industry experts to share the latest innovations in process and packaging technology, IP and design solutions, and design services.

About Dream Chip Technologies GmbH

Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Garbsen, Germany Dream is the preferred engineering design partner to the world’s leading automotive, industrial, consumer electronics and medical companies. Dream Chip Technologies is a European engineering company with a strong track record in System on Chip and embedded Software design. DCT is positioned to support European customers with their SoC, FPGA and Embedded SW designs. Our strong development team brings more than 20 years of design experience to customers. The main strength of the company is image signal processing, device inter-networking and autonomous systems. The company now has more than 100 engineers in Germany and the Netherlands. To learn more, go to www.dreamchip.de

About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

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About Samsung Semiconductor Europe

Samsung Semiconductor Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., is headquartered in Eschborn near Frankfurt/Main, Germany and operates offices all over Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA). The European headquarter is handling the marketing and sales activities of Samsung Electronics' component businesses units including Memory, System LSI, Foundry, LED and Display business in EMEA. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com/semiconductor.