Peregrine Semiconductor Expands European Operations
17 September 2012 - 3:00PM
Business Wire
Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ:
PSMI), a fabless provider of high-performance radio-frequency
(RF) integrated circuits (ICs), today announced the expansion of
its European operations with the opening of a design,
manufacturing, and sales facility in Reading, United Kingdom (UK).
The Company’s UK facility focuses on developing dedicated RFIC
products of European content, to better address the European
requirements; including those of the European commercial,
industrial, and high-reliability (hi-rel) markets, which have been
a cornerstone for Peregrine’s successful growth across Europe. The
facility will also provide design services for Peregrine
Semiconductor’s next-generation UltraCMOS® RFIC
portfolio, sold worldwide.
“We are pleased to expand our commitment to a region that has
been instrumental in the worldwide adoption of our UltraCMOS
technology as the RFIC process technology of choice,” said Dave
Shepard, vice president of Peregrine Semiconductor’s
High-Performance Solutions business unit. “Some of the world’s most
visionary designs originate in the European region, and this
expansion of our global design, sales support, and manufacturing
operations further demonstrates our commitment to the European RF
engineering community.”
Multiple product families will be developed at the new facility,
including digital step attenuators, Phase-Locked Loop frequency
synthesizers, and RF switches, which provide excellent RF
performance. Additionally, Peregrine Semiconductor is looking for
talented employees to join its European team as part of its 2012
expansion plan, which includes a substantial increase in its
worldwide workforce, thus far. For more information and to
apply, visit
http://www.psemi.com/content/careers/careers.php.
About UltraCMOS® Technology
UltraCMOS process technology is a patented advancement of
Silicon-on-Insulator technology on a sapphire substrate that
provides high yields, competitive costs, and an
environmentally-friendly alternative to GaAs-based technologies.
UltraCMOS technology delivers significant performance advantages
over competing processes such as GaAs, SiGe, BiCMOS, and
bulk-silicon CMOS in applications where RF performance, low power,
and high levels of integration are paramount. These measurable
power and size savings offer advantages for both manufacturers and
consumers, including lower power consumption, enabling longer
battery life, and smaller batteries. Additionally, Peregrine
Semiconductor’s HaRP™ technology enhancements and
DuNE™ antenna-tuning technology further exploit the benefits
of Silicon-on-Sapphire technology, enabling dramatic improvements
in harmonic results, linearity, power handling, and overall RF
performance.
About Peregrine Semiconductor
Peregrine Semiconductor (NASDAQ: PSMI) is a fabless provider of
high-performance radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs). Our
solutions leverage our proprietary UltraCMOS®
technology, which enables the design, manufacture, and
integration of multiple RF, mixed-signal, and digital functions on
a single chip. Our products deliver what we believe is an
industry-leading combination of performance and monolithic
integration, and target a broad range of applications in the
aerospace and defense, broadband, industrial, mobile wireless
device, test and measurement equipment, and wireless infrastructure
markets. UltraCMOS technology combines the ability to achieve the
high levels of performance of traditional specialty processes, with
the fundamental benefits of standard CMOS, the most widely-used
semiconductor process technology. UltraCMOS technology utilizes a
synthetic sapphire substrate, a near-perfect electrical insulator,
providing low parasitic capacitance, and enabling high signal
isolation, and excellent broadband linearity. These attributes
result in RF devices with excellent high-frequency performance and
power-handling performance, reduced crosstalk between frequencies,
and enhanced network efficiency. We have engineered design
advancements, including our patented HaRP™ technology which
significantly improves harmonic and linearity performance; and our
patent-pending DuNE™ technology, a circuit design technique
that we have used to develop our advanced Digitally Tunable
Capacitor (DTC) products. We offer a broad portfolio of
high-performance RFICs including switches, digital attenuators,
mixers/upconverters, prescalers, frequency synthesizers, DTCs, and
DC-to-DC converter products; and we are currently developing Power
Amplifiers (PAs). Our products are sold worldwide through our
direct sales and field applications engineering staff, and our
network of independent sales representatives, and distribution
partners. Additional information is available on the Company’s
website at http://www.psemi.com.
The Peregrine Semiconductor name, logo and
UltraCMOS are registered trademarks, and DuNE and HaRP are
trademarks of Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation in the U.S.A.,
and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
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