Jul 31 2015
TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, today announced it is ramping high volume production of a touch screen controller developed by N-trig, an Israeli company.
Recently, this advanced digital pen technology was acquired by Microsoft for use with its Surface products. The touch screen controller, which enables special capabilities of sensing multi-fingers touch and a digital pen (stylus), will be produced using TowerJazz's advanced 0.18-micron power management process (TS18PM). N-trig's ICs were designed by N-trig with the support of TowerJazz's Netanya Design Center (NDC) in Israel and are being manufactured in its Migdal Haemek, Israel fabrication facility (Fab 2).
"Mass producing N-trig technology for an industry giant further enhances our position as a leading power management IC manufacturer. N-trig chose to work with TowerJazz due to our excellent design and engineering support as well as our platform capability. We look forward to supporting further innovation for these products and providing volume production as the tablet market continues to grow," said Russell Ellwanger, TowerJazz Chief Executive Officer.
TowerJazz offers an industry leading Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) power management process used in consumer, communications and computing applications. The foundry's customizable LDMOS (20V to 80V) process platform provides design optimization and the lowest die size at any given breakdown voltage. The platform offers maximum flexibility, enabling customers to create cost-effective products at any desired level of integration and achieve first-pass success for faster time-to-market. For enhanced power management solutions, TowerJazz offers Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) and a groundbreaking 700V power platform that is unrivaled by other foundries.
Source: http://www.towerjazz.com/