SilTerra Malaysia Partners With AMIC Communication

March 27, 2008

Malaysia's leading semiconductor wafer foundry, SilTerra Malaysia, has announced a partnership with Hsinchu, Taiwan-based, fabless radio-frequency-integrated-circuit (RFIC) company AMIC Communication (AMICCOM). The agreement is for manufacturing AMICCOM's RFIC products using SilTerra's 0.18-micron RFCMOS semiconductor technology. Silterra Malaysia offers a variety of semiconductor processes, including RF and logic devices, with a design capacity of 40,000 eight-inch wafers per month.

According to Tzeng San Tan, President of AMICCOM, "0.18-micron RFCMOS process maturity and accuracy of RF models are our key criteria in selecting a foundry partner and SilTerra has demonstrated their capability in meeting our stringent RF design requirements." He added "several new products, such as a low-power transceiver for 2.4-GHz wireless data communication used in game consoles and PC peripherals, have already been qualified and we are ramping up to full production."

www.amiccom.com.tw

www.silterra.com

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Jack Browne

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Jack Browne, Technical Contributor, has worked in technical publishing for over 30 years. He managed the content and production of three technical journals while at the American Institute of Physics, including Medical Physics and the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology. He has been a Publisher and Editor for Penton Media, started the firm’s Wireless Symposium & Exhibition trade show in 1993, and currently serves as Technical Contributor for that company's Microwaves & RF magazine. Browne, who holds a BS in Mathematics from City College of New York and BA degrees in English and Philosophy from Fordham University, is a member of the IEEE.