Description

TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, manufactures integrated circuits, offering the widest range of customizable CMOS specialty wafer processes and providing world-class design enablement tools for the quickest path to design success. TowerJazz’s modular processes enable superior solutions for targeted designs, quickly meeting customer needs and facilitating fast time-to-market for their innovative products.

The Company also offers transfer optimization and development process services for IDMs and fabless companies to expand capacity or provide second sourcing. TowerJazz customers are focused on markets including Power Management, Wireless, High-Performance Analog (HPA), Automotive, Medical and Aerospace & Defense, among others. TowerJazz shares are traded on NASDAQ (TSEM) and Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TSEM).

History

Tower Semiconductor was founded as a National Semiconductor spin-off and became a public company in 1994. Jazz Semiconductor was formed in 2002 as a spin-off of Conexant Systems. Tower and Jazz merged in September 2008 in a stock-for-stock transaction and re-branded as TowerJazz. In 2011, TowerJazz acquired Micron’s manufacturing facility in Japan to expand its production capacity.

Headquarters

Facilities

TowerJazz offers fab capacity on three continents. Along with its two manufacturing facilities (6" and 8") in Israel and its 8" fab in the U.S., TowerJazz acquired Micron’s 8" fab in Japan, nearly doubling its internal capacity and expanding its geographical reach into the APAC region. In addition, TowerJazz has access to capacity in China through manufacturing partnerships.

Technology and Design Enablement

TowerJazz offers specialty CMOS processes with geometries ranging from 1.0- to 0.13-micron, including: SiGe, BiCMOS, Mixed-Signal & RF-CMOS, CMOS Image Sensor (CIS), Power Management (BCD), MEMS capabilities and digital CMOS. The Company also offers an industry recognized design enablement infrastructure to provide an environment optimized for analog and RF designs. Unique tools such as Monte Carlo statistical and PCM-based models allow users to maximize the performance-yield tradeoff and provide them with a significant competitive market advantage.

Customers

TowerJazz currently serves leading semiconductor companies including: Avago Technologies, Conexant, Cypress Semiconductor, DRS Technologies, e2v, Entropic Communications, Freescale Semiconductor, Gennum, Ikanos, International Rectifier, Intersil, Marvell Technology Group, Medigus Ltd., Micron Technology, Mindspeed Technologies, NXP, On Semiconductor, Panavision, Raytheon, RF Micro Devices, Semtech, SiTime Corporation, Skyworks Solutions, Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, Texas Instruments, VIA Technologies and Vishay - Siliconix.

Workforce

Approximately 3000 employees

Contacts

Director of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications
Noit Levi 
972-4-6047066
noit.levi@towerjazz.com