About Tower Semiconductor
Tower Semiconductor is a specialty foundry that manufactures analog, RF, power and silicon photonics chips for other companies. Its silicon germanium and silicon photonics platforms serve optical transceivers and networking gear used in AI data centers. It is a supplier of process technology rather than a designer of its own processors. The company is headquartered in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and has announced a government-backed expansion of 300mm silicon photonics and silicon germanium capacity in Japan.
Tower Semiconductor was founded in 1993 and is based in Migdal Haemek, Israel. It is listed under ASICs, Custom Silicon, Interconnect & Networking. Its shares trade as TSEM on NASDAQ.
Compute Technologies
- Custom Silicon
What Tower Semiconductor works on
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
Custom Silicon
Custom silicon means a company designs its own chips for its own products or data centers instead of buying standard parts. The chip is made by a foundry such as TSMC, but the design belongs to the customer.
Interconnect & Networking
Interconnect is the set of links that move data between chips, between boards and between racks. It includes wires on a package, cables inside a server, and the network switches and optical fibre across a data center. A processor is only as useful as the speed at which it can get data in and out.
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