CAMBRIDGE, U.K. & MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 2012--
Nujira
Ltd, the world’s leader in Envelope Tracking technology, and TowerJazz,
the global specialty foundry leader, today announced that Nujira has
selected TowerJazz as its foundry partner for its recently announced
Envelope Tracking (ET) integrated circuit (IC) for mobile handsets. The
NCT-L1100 is Nujira’s first chip in its Coolteq.L product family of High
Accuracy Tracking ET modulators designed to significantly increase RF
power amplifier (PA) efficiencies in mobile handsets. The new chip also
marks Nujira’s shift to a fabless business model to address the high
volume, global smartphone and mobile device market.
“Our new IC for mobile handsets is hugely significant for the business
and strategically, so it was absolutely critical that we selected the
right foundry partner,” commented Tim Haynes, CEO, Nujira. “TowerJazz’s
processes offered us the ideal combination of power management and high
performance analog technology to meet the challenging requirements of ET
ICs. The TowerJazz process is a superb platform on which to base future
integration of Envelope Tracking, RF PA and switch technologies to
provide the industry with fully monolithic front end solutions.”
Patrick McNamee, Nujira’s VP of Silicon Operations added: “As the
world’s largest specialist analog foundry, TowerJazz offers us the
modeling expertise, capacity and security of supply we need to address
the high volume smartphone market, and we welcome them as a key part of
our world class supply chain.” Nujira’s NCT-L1100 is fabricated in
TowerJazz’s well proven 0.18 micron CMOS process and takes advantage of
the years of careful analog design and process modeling.
“Nujira’s technology has huge potential for the mobile handset market,
so we are excited to be their partners and to be supporting them in the
development of their Envelope Tracking ICs,” said Dr Marco Racanelli,
Senior Vice President & General Manager of RF and High Performance
Analog Business Group. “With foundry capacity on three continents,
TowerJazz offers a unique combination of specialty processes and wafer
capacity, enabling high growth fabless IC companies like Nujira to rely
on us as their silicon supplier.”
Nujira’s NCT-L1100 will be available in small footprint Wafer-level Chip
Scale Package (WLCSP). Nujira provides platform chipset vendors with
evaluation boards and engineering support for integration into reference
designs for smartphones and data devices. The NCT-L1100 is sampling now
to lead partners with general availability in Q4 2012.
About Nujira
Nujira’s mission is to dramatically improve the energy efficiency of
transmitters for 3G and 4G handsets, base stations and TV broadcast
applications by reducing the amount of waste energy dissipated as heat
in the RF Power Amplifier circuit. Nujira’s patented Coolteq® Modulator
technology dynamically controls the power supply to the circuit in line
with the amplitude of the signal, enabling the creation of highly
efficient RF Power Amplifiers. Today Coolteq technology powers the
industry’s most energy efficient and highest performing 4G base stations
and TV broadcast transmitters. Nujira is now applying the same energy
efficient technology to smartphones and other portable wireless devices.
A fabless semiconductor company located in Cambridge, UK, with design
centres in Cambridge, Bath and Edinburgh, Nujira is enabling the design
of cost-effective multi-mode, multi-band handsets that deliver faster
data rates, longer battery life, and better coverage.
About TowerJazz
Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ: TSEM) (TASE: TSEM), the global
specialty foundry leader, its fully owned U.S. subsidiary Jazz
Semiconductor Ltd., and its fully owned Japanese subsidiary TowerJazz
Japan, LTD, operate collectively under the brand name TowerJazz,
manufacturing integrated circuits with geometries ranging from 1.0 to
0.13-micron. TowerJazz provides industry leading design enablement tools
to allow complex designs to be achieved quickly and more accurately and
offers a broad range of customizable process technologies including
SiGe, BiCMOS, Mixed-Signal and RFCMOS, CMOS Image Sensor, Power
Management (BCD), and Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) as well as MEMS
capabilities. To provide multi-fab sourcing, TowerJazz maintains two
manufacturing facilities in Israel, one in the U.S., and one in Japan
with additional capacity available in China through manufacturing
partnerships. For more information, please visit www.towerjazz.com.
Safe Harbor Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements, which are
subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results may vary from those
projected or implied by such forward-looking statements. A complete
discussion of risks and uncertainties that may affect the accuracy of
forward-looking statements included in this press release or which may
otherwise affect TowerJazz’s business is included under the heading
"Risk Factors" in Tower’s most recent filings on Forms 20-F, F-3, F-4
and 6-K, as were filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“SEC”) and the Israel Securities Authority and Jazz’s most recent
filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, as were filed with the SEC,
respectively. Tower and Jazz do not intend to update, and expressly
disclaim any obligation to update, the information contained in this
release.
Source: TowerJazz
TowerJazz
Media Contact:
Lauri Julian,
949-715-3049
lauri.julian@towerjazz.com
or
Investor
Relations Contact:
Noit Levi, +972 4 604 7066
noit.levi@towerjazz.com
or
Nujira
Press contact:
EML Wildfire
Ben Smith, Senior Account
Manager
Phone: +44 20 8408 8000
nujira@emlwildfire.com
or
Nujira
contact:
Jeremy Hendy, VP Sales & Marketing
+44 1223
597900
jeremy.hendy@nujira.com
