EDN

Zarlink upgrades BiCMOS process for power ICs

LONDON — Zarlink Semiconductor has developed an improved version of its sub-micron BiCMOS process technology that it is targeting for higher power and higher temperature power management chips. Dubbed ...
EDN

TSMC Intros 0.35-Micron BiCMOS Process For Wireless Applications

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) this week debuted its first 0.35-micron BiCMOS process for wireless and communications applications. TSMC (nyse: TSM), based in Hsinchu, Taiwan, said it ...
Electronics Weekly

Philips claims its 0.25?m version of BiCMOS process is a match for SiGe

Philips Semiconductors has developed a 0.25?m version of its BiCMOS process. Known as QUBiC4, the process can produce transistors with a transition frequency (fT)of more than 40GHz. Maximum frequency ...
Design-Reuse

Jazz Semiconductor Announces 0.13-micron SiGe BiCMOS Process Designed for High Speed Wireless and Optical Communications Applications

Jazz Offers Cost-Effective 0.13-micron SiGe BiCMOS Process Platform with 200GHz Transistors for Highest Performance System-on-Chip (SoC) Applications NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., April 11, 2007 -- Jazz ...
Electronic Design

SiGe BiCMOS Process Optimized For Cost-Sensitive RF Markets

In an effort to gain a competitive edge in the cost-sensitive wireless communications arena, STMicroelectronics has added silicon-germanium (SiGe) biCMOS to its arsenal of process technologies. The ...
Design-Reuse

Ensphere Leverages TowerJazz's 0.18-micron SiGe BiCMOS Process to Achieve Fully Integrated One Chip Optical Transceiver IC

ESI-1002 enables SFP+ modules with sub-1 watt power consumption Overall SFP+ module shipment per year expected to be $2.5B; total revenue for chipmakers approximately $300M per year NEWPORT BEACH, ...
Digi Times

TSMC launches 0.35-micron BiCMOS process technology

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announced on March 1 the availability of 0.35-micron BiCMOS (bipolar-complementary metal oxide semiconductor) process technology to its customers.
Digi Times

TSMC to launch 0.35-micron BiCMOS process to follow SoC trend

While chip design is following the system-on-a-chip (SoC) trend, Taiwan’s semiconductor leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) noted that as a ...
Electronic Design

BiCMOS process improves amplifier precision, power efficiency

National Semiconductor has developed a proprietary silicon-on-insulator (SOI) BiCMOS analog process technology specifically for operational amplifier applications in the 0.9 V to 12 V supply voltage ...
CIOL

Nanoradio selects Jazz 0.35-micron SiGe BiCMOS process

NEWPORT, USA & STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN: Nanoradio AB, a semiconductor supplier targeting the cellular handset and multimedia consumer electronics market, and Jazz Semiconductor, a leading RF and analog ...
JSTOR Daily

Beyond CMOS: heterogeneous integration of III–V devices, RF MEMS and other dissimilar materials/devices with Si CMOS to create intelligent microsystems

Advances in silicon technology continue to revolutionize micro-/nano-electronics. However, Si cannot do everything, and devices/components based on other materials systems are required. What is the ...