Jazz Semiconductor’s SIGE BiCMOS Technology to Drive Next Generation Green, Energy Efficient Analog ICs

Jazz Semiconductor’s SIGE BiCMOS Technology to Drive Next Generation Green, Energy Efficient Analog ICs

Offers up to 30% Power and Efficiency Benefits over Standard CMOS

Industry Leading Complementary PNP for 0.18µ Platform Reduces Power

ATLANTA, Georgia, June 17, 2008 – Jazz Semiconductor, the leader in Analog-Intensive Mixed-Signal (AIMS) foundry solutions today announced its 0.18-micron Silicon Germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS platform (SBC18) enables customers to deliver next generation green, energy efficient analog ICs. Jazz’s modular process technology offers significant power and efficiency savings over standard CMOS. Jazz SBC18 provides a next-generation solution for ultra low power, integrated wireless and networking products that require high-performance bipolar transistors with high-quality passives together with high density logic.

Jazz’s modular SBC18 SiGe BiCMOS platform incorporates high speed, standard, and high breakdown SiGe Bipolar transistors, or SiGe NPNs, for low noise, high switching speeds and better linearity than can be achieved with a typical 0.18-micron CMOS offering, for applications where those features are required. For a given performance level, Jazz’s SiGe NPN provides up to 30% power savings over standard CMOS for high speed precision analog circuits using Current Mode Logic (CML). In addition, SBC18 offers up to 200 GHz SiGe devices extending this power advantage to higher frequency applications such as automotive radar.

Jazz also announced today a Vertical PNP (VPNP) module for the SBC18 SiGe BiCMOS process which can be paired with a SiGe NPN to enable the design of analog circuits that require high voltage, complementary drive or amplification beyond the capability of standard CMOS. Jazz’s VPNP showcases a low capacitance, high current drive, and high breakdown voltage that enable up to 30% efficiency improvements yielding power and die area savings for output stage and power applications.

“Our customers take advantage of our modular 0.18-micron SiGe BiCMOS platform to produce the latest differentiated, highly integrated analog and mixed-signal products that are more energy efficient than previous generations”, said Chuck Fox, vice president of sales and marketing, Jazz Semiconductor. “The SBC18 SiGe BiCMOS platform offers an optimal feature set to allow customers to integrate complex transceiver and power amplifier functions on a single die, significantly reducing IC power consumption over standard CMOS technology.”

The advanced SBC18 process platform is supported by Jazz process design kits, low power digital libraries and memory compilers, RF/analog modeling suite, and PCM based models, to provide users with precise circuit performance simulations and comprehensive, silicon validated design techniques.

About Jazz Semiconductor

Jazz Semiconductor®, a wholly owned subsidiary of Jazz Technologies™ Inc. (AMEX: JAZ), is the leading independent wafer foundry focused on Analog-Intensive Mixed-Signal (AIMS) CMOS process technologies. The company’s broad portfolio of modular AIMS technologies includes RFCMOS and specialty CMOS processes, such as Enhanced RFCMOS, BiCMOS, SiGe BiCMOS, Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS, and High Voltage CMOS. These technologies are designed to produce analog and mixed-signal semiconductor devices that are smaller and more highly integrated, power-efficient, feature-rich and cost-effective than those produced using standard process technologies. Jazz also offers world-class design enablement tools to speed customers’ time from design to revenue production. The Company serves customers in the wireless and high-speed wireline communications, consumer electronics, automotive and industrial end markets. Jazz executive offices and its U.S. wafer fabrication facilities are located in Newport Beach, CA. For more information, please visit www.jazzsemi.com.

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