Overview
Tower Semiconductor Fab 3 in Newport Beach, California is a 200mm (8-inch) specialty-analog wafer fab that Tower gained through its 2008 acquisition of Jazz Semiconductor (the former Conexant/Rockwell foundry). It runs 0.18-micron RF-CMOS, SiGe BiCMOS and analog processes at around 25,000 wafers per month, serving RF, power management and high-performance analog customers from a US base. Key facility details include: The facility is situated at Newport Beach, California, USA. It focuses on RF / Wireless, Analog / Power and 180 process nodes on 200mm wafers. This site represents a production capacity of 25,000 wafers per month.
Technology
About Tower Semiconductor
Tower Semiconductor Ltd. is an Israeli specialty foundry manufacturing analog/mixed-signal ICs using SiGe, BiCMOS, RF-CMOS, silicon photonics, power management, and CMOS image sensor process technologies, with fabs in Israel, Italy, and the US, plus a 51%-owned joint venture (TPSCo) with Nuvoton in Japan. Intel's proposed $5.4B acquisition of Tower was terminated in 2023 after failing to secure timely regulatory approval.