Company: Sipex Corporation
Milpitas, California
www.sipex.com

Jazz Process Chosen: BCD05/BCD25 (0.5/0.25µm Bipolar CMOS-DMOS)

Product: WLED Backlighting Solutions and PowerBlox™ Devices

Description: Sipex offers a family of WLED backlighting solutions for notebook and monitor displays. By using Jazz BCD05, the combination of high voltage and small geometries allow the integration of digital interfaces and the capability of driving large numbers of LEDs in series. BCD05 is also used to manufacture Sipex's PowerBlox™ devices, as well as, the company's first sub-micron interface device. Sipex selected Jazz BCD25 process for its new high performance power devices and new high-speed interface products.

Target: Consumer, networking and industrial markets. The products are categorized into three synergistic areas of power management, interface and optical storage.

"As a fabless company, we rely on key foundry suppliers such as Jazz for our continued success. We selected the Jazz BCD05 process technology for a number of new designs, and we'll utilize the BCD25 process for next-generation interface and power products. With the emergence of the analog foundry model and the growth in production of power management ICs, our collaboration with Jazz endorses our timely focus on the right market."
-- Lee Cleveland, VP of Engineering, Sipex

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