TORRANCE, CA-May 30, 2007 - Global Communication Semiconductors, Inc. (GCS), a leading III-V foundry services provider for RF and optoelectronic industry, and RFIC Solutions, Inc., a 3rd party Intellectual Properties and design services provider, jointly announce a strategic alliance to provide customers with a broad range of services from product design to finished parts. The alliance combines GCS' broad portfolio of foundry technologies (HBT, PHEMT, InP) and RFIC Solutions' expertise in IP, RFIC and module design expertise to enable customers achieve custom RF solutions quickly and efficiently with the lowest cost. "GCS is proud to partner with RFIC Solutions to continue to add value to our foundry services," commented Simon Yu, Vice President of sales and marketing of GCS. "We look forward to collaborating with RFIC Solutions to provide one-stop solutions to our customers. We are confident that this partnership will provide world class design capabilities and low cost RF design solutions that enable our customers to enhance product performance and competitiveness and shorten their product time to market." "We are pleased to partner with GCS since we have designed many of our IP blocks using GCS GaAs HBT and other processes. We are designing power amplifiers, LNA, mixers, synthesizers, and transceivers for cellular, WiFi, WiMax, UWB, and Cable TV markets. Many of these markets require advanced GaAs and PHEMT processes that GCS offers. By partnering with GCS, we offer one stop shop high performance, low cost RFIC and module design services." said Sanjay Moghe, President and CEO.
About Global Communication Semiconductors Inc. (www.gcsincorp.com) GCS provides wafer foundry services to the RF wireless communication, telecommunication and high-speed networking, optoelectronics and photonics industries, with a broad portfolio of RF processes (InGaP HBT, PHEMT filter), and various optoelectronics and photonics processes for Products such as GaAs/InGaAs PIN PD, imaging array, APD, VCSEL, Laser, modulator, QWIP and LED.
About RFIC Solutions, Inc. (www.rficsolutions.com) RFIC Solutions offers RFIC, module and system design services to customers for to the RF wireless communication markets. Our RFIC/MMIC Products are developed using state-of-the-art GaAs, PHEMT, Silicon and SiGe, CMOS and BiCMOS processes. Our custom IP support a wide range of wireless/wired communications and radar applications including Broadband, Cellular/3G, WiFi, UWB, Zeegbee, WiMax, fiber optic, CATV and other, Microwave Communications and Space markets. |
