- 17 February 2006 -

Jazz Semiconductor receives plaudits

Jazz Semiconductor has just received the Vendor of the Year Award for 2005 from Micro Linear Corporation, a developer of IC solutions for the wireless communications market. This follows on from the recent, Control Engineering magazine selecting the company's Vertical PNP Module for its 2005 "Editors' Choice Award".

A few weeks ago TechnoConcepts selected Jazz Semiconductor to fabricate True Software Radio chips.

Antonio Turgeon, chairman of TechnoConcepts said: "We anticipate the first engineering run of our chips to be complete, with samples available in Summer 2006. This will set the stage for the first full production run for delivery to customers in late 2006 or early 2007."

"Jazz currently offers successive generations of its SiGe BiCMOS process, which supports the features that will facilitate TechnoConcepts' innovative designs as we focus on capturing market share in our next generation products," said Turgeon. Specifically, we will see significant power savings using the Jazz process since 95% of the chip will be fabricated in low-power CMOS and only 5% will utilize the high-performance SiGe, both available on the Jazz SiGe BiCMOS platform process."

TechnoConcepts' True Software Radio® is a wireless transmitter/receiver technology that can operate continuously across different frequency bands, controlled entirely by software. With True Software Radio® technology, the flexibility to communicate with and among otherwise incompatible wireless devices can be virtually unlimited.

"Jazz is pleased to partner with companies such as TechnoConcepts in introducing innovative products like True Software Radio" said Marco Racanelli, vice president of technology and engineering, Jazz Semiconductor. "Our process platforms are customizable and can be optimized to leverage the power efficiencies of low power CMOS while enjoying the benefits of high speed, low noise SiGe in a single process technology. These features have been utilized by TechnoConcepts to improve the way wireless signals are transmitted, received and processed."

Finally, Jazz said it will be hosting a Technology Review on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 in San Jose, featuring High Voltage CMOS, Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD), RFCMOS and SiGe BiCMOS processes for the manufacture of highly integrated analog systems-on-chip (SOCs), a concept often relegated to the digital realm.

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