Dec 11 2015
TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, today announced participation at IC CAD on December 10-11, 2015 to support its increasing business and growth in China and showcase its focus to support the growing needs of its Asia Pacific customers. In addition, TowerJazz will highlight its extended manufacturing capabilities and the availability of its advanced power, analog and CMOS image sensor (CIS) technologies at TowerJazz Panasonic Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (TPSCo), the leading analog foundry in Japan.
At IC CAD, TPSCo's Manager of Design Enablement, Naoki Okada will present, "Japanese Quality Serves China Market from Three Fabs with Pure Foundry Service," and will focus on TowerJazz and TPSCo's expanding presence in China and the APAC markets, providing leading technology with strong IP protection and strong local support. TowerJazz will exhibit in booth A32-33 to showcase the companies' advanced specialty technologies and expanded manufacturing capabilities.
TowerJazz's and TPSCo's process offerings include front-end module (FEM) development, highly integrated 700V technology to meet the green standards for BLDC motor drivers and industrial LED lighting, 0.18um BCD with scalable LDMOS for Energy Harvesting, DC-DC converters and LED backlighting. TPSCo also offers CIS technology in 65nm on 300mm wafers with a variety of pixels including the 1.12um pixel used for 8Mp and 13Mp sensors for the smart phone camera market and larger pixels for security and high end DSLR markets including sensors with >150Mp count. In addition, they offer CIS technology on their 110nm technology with state of the art global shutter pixels at various sizes for the industrial and machine vision markets.
"IC CAD is the premiere event to further demonstrate our dedication to the China market and to make potential China customers aware of the availability of TowerJazz's power and CIS technology in TPSCo's three fabs in Japan. TowerJazz's China region business is expanding very fast with 2015 year over year growth of 67% and forecast for continuous strong growth in 2016. As such, we are placing great focus and resources on supporting and meeting the needs of Mainland China, Hong Kong and the APAC region," said Lei Qin, China Country Manager, TowerJazz.
About TowerJazz Panasonic Semiconductor Co.
TowerJazz Panasonic Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (TPSCo) was established by Panasonic Corporation (NASDAQ ADS: PCRFY, TYO: 6752), 51% of which was acquired by Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ: TSEM, TASE: TSEM) and 49% of which is now held by Panasonic Semiconductor Solutions Co., Ltd. TPSCo has three manufacturing facilities in Hokuriku, Japan which have been producing large scale integrated circuits for over 30 years. Areas of process technology focus include: high dynamic range image sensors (CIS and CCD), integrated power devices (BCD, SOI, and LDMOS) and high frequency silicon RFCMOS. With over 120 qualified silicon process flows on 200mm and 300mm wafers from super micron to 45nm as well as internal back end processing, assembly and test services, TPSCo provides both IDMs and fabless companies with unparalleled semiconductor manufacturing quality and technology, including in-house turnkey services. For more information, please visit https://www.tpsemico.com/.
Source: http://www.towerjazz.com/