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Tower Semiconductor Strengthens Its Design Center Program with Four New Design Center Partners
Cadence, QThink, QualCore Logic, and SliceX Join
Tower's Authorized Design Center Program (TADC)
MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Jan. 25, 2005—
Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Nasdaq:TSEM)(TASE:TSEM), a premier
pure-play independent wafer foundry, today announced a major expansion
of the Tower Authorized Design Center (TADC) program, naming Cadence
Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CDN), QThink, QualCore Logic and SliceX as
design center partners.
Tower's new design center partners come to the TADC program with
proven track records of delivering high-quality IP, libraries, circuit
design capabilities and exceptional engineering services. This
expansion of the TADC program allows Tower's customers to tap into a
full spectrum of design services, including mixed-signal design and
ASIC realization flow.
"Achieving predictability of first-time silicon success is
paramount in everything we do at Tower," said Rafi Nave, vice
president of customer services, Tower Semiconductor. "Our new design
center partners passed rigorous qualification criteria, ensuring that
customers engaging with Tower Authorized Design Center partners are
receiving cutting-edge services from world-class IP and design
companies."
The TADC program was created to help Tower's customers accelerate
the design-to-silicon process and enhance first-time silicon success.
The program links Tower's customers to leading integrated circuit (IC)
design firms, IP and library providers with qualified support for the
Tower Semiconductor fabrication flow.
About Cadence Design Systems
Cadence is the world's largest supplier of electronic design
technologies and engineering services. The company is headquartered in
San Jose, Calif., and trades on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq
under the symbol CDN. More information is available at
www.cadence.com.
About QThink
QThink is a full-service IC design services company, where ideas
get turned into ICs. QThink designs low-power, high-performance,
complex ICs for customers in a number of vertical markets such as
wireless, networking and consumer. The company has design centers in
San Jose, San Diego and India. More information about QThink is
available at www.qthink.com.
About QualCore Logic
QualCore Logic Inc. develops and markets silicon-proven
analog/mixed signal and digital IP, provides design implementation
services and full turnkey ASIC solutions for systems-on-chip (SoC)
designs. More information about QualCore Logic is available at
www.qualcorelogic.com.
About SliceX
SliceX is a mixed-signal design center, specializing in analog IP
and turnkey custom system solutions. SliceX is a skilled developer of
system architectures and custom layout solutions that have been proven
leaders in semiconductor, imaging, consumer, medical, and
communications industries. More information about SliceX is available
at www.slicex.com.
About Tower Semiconductor LTD.
Tower Semiconductor LTD. is a pure-play independent wafer foundry
established in 1993. The company manufactures integrated circuits with
geometries ranging from 1.0 to 0.13 micron; it also provides
complementary technical services and design support. In addition to
digital CMOS process technology, Tower offers advanced non-volatile
memory solutions, mixed-signal and CMOS image-sensor technologies. To
provide world-class customer service, the company maintains two
manufacturing facilities: Fab 1 has process technologies from 1.0 to
0.35 micron and can produce up to 16,000 150mm wafers per month. Fab 2
features 0.18 micron and below process technologies, including
foundry-standard technology. When fully equipped, Fab 2 is expected to
offer full production capacity of 33,000 200mm wafers per month.
Tower's Web site is located at www.towersemi.com.
Safe Harbor
This press release includes forward-looking statements, which are
subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results may vary from those
projected or implied by such forward-looking statements. A complete
discussion of risks and uncertainties that may affect the accuracy of
forward-looking statements included in this press release or which may
otherwise affect our business is included under the heading "Risk
Factors" in our most recent Annual Report on Forms 20-F and 6-K, as
were filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Israel
Securities Authority.
Contact:
Tower Semiconductor USA
Michael Axelrod, 408-330-6871
pr@towersemi.com
or
Pacifico Inc.
Patricia Colby, 408-293-8600
pcolby@pacifico.com
or
Fusion IR & Communications
Sheldon Lutch, 212-268-1816 (Investor Relations)
sheldon@fusionir.com
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