NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. & IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, today announced SaberTek, Inc., a leading edge design service and IP provider for mmWave, RF, and analog products has joined its “Design Star Awards Program,” a design center partnership incentive program offered to independent design centers. Through this program, SaberTek will refer new customers and products to TowerJazz, enhancing its SiGe technology offerings and increasing the number of specialty designs taped into TowerJazz. In addition, SaberTek will receive benefits from TowerJazz on products and services ordered for their customers.
The announcement formalizes an existing five-year relationship between TowerJazz and SaberTek, during which SaberTek has successfully completed several developments in TowerJazz processes. Recent developments include W-band receivers for passive imaging and transceivers for MoCA, WCDMA/LTE, as well as 60GHz WiGig and 77GHz car radar.
SaberTek provides comprehensive design services for the development and production of high-performance and advanced mmWave/RF/Analog products and IPs. Its services cover the complete development cycle, from concept and specifications, to prototyping and high volume production.
“We chose to join TowerJazz’s Design Star Awards Program because they have proven to be the SiGe foundry of choice. As a customer of TowerJazz, they have provided excellent service and quality. Toolboxes and reliable high frequency models provided in their PDK significantly reduce the development risk and duration, especially for mmWave developments,” said Dr. Farbod Behbahani, CEO & President, SaberTek Inc.
“SaberTek joining our Design Star Awards Program evidences the high quality of TowerJazz’s partners and supports our initiative to create a program that offers customers the most complete design services for their devices manufactured using our world-class SiGe technology and other process offerings,” said Ori Galzur, TowerJazz Vice President of Design Center and PDK Development.
About SaberTek, Inc.
SaberTek Inc. provides comprehensive design services for development and production of high-performance and advanced mmWave/RF/Analog products and IP's. Its services cover the complete development cycle, from concept and specifications, to the prototyping and high volume production. It provides high performance and low power IP’s in various CMOS and SiGe BiCMOS processes for wireless applications.
For more information please visit: www.sabertek.com
Contact: sales@sabertek.com
About TowerJazz
Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ: TSEM) (TASE: TSEM), the global specialty foundry leader, its fully owned U.S. subsidiary Jazz Semiconductor, Inc. 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.
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