Israeli global specialty foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Nasdaq: TSEM; TASE: TSEM), announced today dual fab sourcing for 3PEAK, Inc., a provider of high-end analog and mixed-signal electronic products, at TowerJazz Panasonic Semiconductor Co.’s (TPSCo’s) fab in Japan. Tower Semiconductor, which markets as TowerJazz, is headed by CEO Russell Ellwanger.
3PEAK designs and manufactures a broad range of high performance analog integrated circuits, with emphasis on low power, low noise, and high precision. 3PEAK products are manufactured solely by TowerJazz, and have been in production in its 200mm fab in Israel for many years. Now, the companies are extending their strategic partnership with dual sourcing capabilities and 3PEAK’s products have already been qualified and are being mass produced at TPSCo’s 200mm fab in Tonami, Japan.
3PEAK provides the market and customers with analog chips of high performance, high reliability, and better cost performance. Product applications cover various fields such as: consumer markets, industrial areas, medical devices, automotive electronics, communications systems and information security, among others. 3PEAK is manufacturing its high performance analog ICs on TowerJazz’s CMOS and power platforms. By using TowerJazz’s CMOS process, one of 3PEAK’s products was able to achieve 25% smaller chip size as compared to any of its competitors.
TowerJazz and TPSCo’s 0.18um power management process includes up to 60V scalable LDMOS devices as well as other advanced analog and optimized power devices like Schottky diodes, etc., needed in today’s complex power management chips. It also includes industry leading RF and thermal modeling, predictive parasitic extraction switch, high voltage ESD solutions, optimized 5V and 1.8V digital cell libraries for “digital intensive” designs. Continuous investment into the technology and further decrease of Rdson of LDMOS devices further improve efficiency and form factor required for high power applications. TowerJazz’s standard logic process adds simplicity and accuracy to analog and mixed-signal designs achieving cost-effective solutions.
3PEAK CEO Dr. Joe Zhou said, “Their exceptional support, combined with their superior technology is the reason TowerJazz is our sole vendor of choice. TowerJazz’s advanced power platform enables excellent analog performance and has made it possible for 3PEAK to win the market with our highly competitive products. We are pleased to further our relationship with TowerJazz, taking advantage of their ability to ensure capacity with dual sourcing capabilities through TPSCo’s Japan fabs. In 2015, 3PEAK’s IC shipments increased 35% compared with 2014. With dual sourcing capabilities, we expect to have an increase of 200% in 2016.”
TowerJazz VP Asia Pacific Sales and China Business Development Todd Mahlen said, “3PEAK’s commitment to solely manufacture its devices at TowerJazz’s fabs is a testimony to our world class design enablement and superior power and analog technologies. We have offered our manufacturing capabilities to 3PEAK for many years at our fab in Israel and now we are pleased to offer dual sourcing in Japan at TPSCo, providing assuredness of supply and a closer proximity to China."
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on March 30, 2016
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