Tower Semiconductor Ltd. Fundamental Company Report Including Financial, SWOT, Competitors and Industry Analysis

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About Tower Semiconductor Ltd.

Tower Semiconductor Ltd., an independent wafer foundry, manufactures semiconductors. The company manufactures semiconductors using production processes for its customers primarily based on third party designs and its own proprietary designs.

The company offers the manufacture of ICs with geometries ranging from 1.0 to 0.13-micron. It also provides design services and complementary technical services. ICs manufactured by the company are incorporated into a range of products in various markets, including consumer electronics, personal computers, communications, automotive, industrial, and medical device products. The company manufactures ICs on silicon wafers, generally using the customer’s proprietary circuit designs. In some cases, the company uses third-party or its own proprietary design elements.

The company provides wafer fabrication services to fabless IC companies and IDMs and enables integration of the semiconductor design and manufacturing processes. It serves as a sole source or alternative provider of foundry services.

The company manufactures using specialty process technologies. The specific process technologies that the company focuses on include CMOS Image Sensors (CIS), advanced analog CMOS, Radio Frequency CMOS (RF CMOS), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Bipolar CMOS (BiCMOS), Silicon Germanium (SiGe BiCMOS), High Voltage CMOS, and Bipolar CMOS double-diffused metal oxide semiconductor (BCD).

The company has a partnership with CMT Medical Technologies Ltd. (CMT), a provider of advanced digital X-ray imaging systems for medical diagnosis, to develop, market, and sell X-ray detectors for medical applications. The company offers a digital intensive power management platform, based on its 0.18um technology node. It develops its isolated premium platform as an add-on to the current one.

In addition, the company developed a zero mask adder NVM solution specifically for power and power management devices on its 0.18um platform. It released various Y-Flash based modules to its customers which have already been integrated into their products. In 2009, the company was chosen by Intersil to develop its 0.18um based power management platform. In 2009, it commenced the development of a 700V platform in its Fab1 1.0um technology node that would serve the LED lighting market.

Customers

The primary customers of the company’s foundry services are fabless semiconductor companies and independent device manufacturers (IDMs). The company manufactures products for a range of electronic products, including applications, such as transceivers and power management for cellular phones; transceivers and power amplifiers for wireless local area networking products; power management, audio amplifiers and driver integrated circuits for consumer electronics; tuners for digital televisions and set-top boxes; modem chipsets for broadband access devices and gaming devices; serializer/deserializers, or SerDes, for fiber optic transceivers; focal plan arrays for imaging applications; controllers for power amplifier and switching chips in cellular phones and wireline interfaces for switches and routers.

Competition

The company competes with the pure-play advanced technology node-driven foundry service providers, such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC), United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), Global Foundries Inc., and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC). It competes directly in the CMOS specialty segment with foundries, such as Vanguard, DongBu, X-Fab, ASMC, Grace, HHNEC, and Silterra. The company also competes with integrated device manufacturers that have internal semiconductor manufacturing capacity or foundry operations, such as IBM.

Significant Events

On August 24, 2010, Tower Semiconductor Ltd. and Magma Design Automation Inc. are collaborating on a new service for Tower customers. Magma's Titan Mixed-Signal Design Platform has been qualified for Tower's Power Management Analog/Mixed-Signal (AMS) Reference Flow and process design kits (iPDKs) for its 180-nanometer (nm) technologies.

History

Tower Semiconductor Ltd. was founded in 1993.