Russell Ellwanger

The first half of 2011 was full of amazing challenges and opportunities for TowerJazz. In order to meet our customers’ demand, we began to increase our organic capacity, as well as looked for M&A opportunities. As we recently announced, we made a strategic move by acquiring Micron’s fab in Nishiwaki, Japan. This nearly doubled our global manufacturing capacity and sent a clear message to our customers that we are positioned to meet their growing needs.

Combined with the additional business potential in Japan, this acquisition extends our geographic reach and distribution capabilities, creating a significant opportunity for revenue enhancement and increased efficiencies in manufacturing. » read more

TowerJazz Japan

We recently announced our “Design Star Awards Program,” a new partnership incentive program offered to independent design centers. This program encourages design centers to refer new customers and products to TowerJazz.

This will increase TowerJazz’s IP portfolio, specifically increasing the number of specialty designs taped into our facilities. In turn, these design partners will receive points from TowerJazz on products and services ordered either by such design partners or their customers.

The design partners can redeem their points against mask-sets, MPWs or prototype lots. “Already a few partners have registered and we are actively looking to expand our partnerships with others, mainly through the sales channel,” said Ori Galzur, TowerJazz Vice President of Design Center and PDK Development. “This is a win-win program, not only for our design partners and TowerJazz, but also for our mutual customers as they will benefit from best-in-class design and manufacturing services.”

For more information, please send an email to: DSAP@towerjazz.com

In this issue, we feature a message from Ephie Koltin, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations. He has served with TowerJazz since 1996 in various senior executive positions including fab management, business development, technology and process engineering.

We are proud of our continued efforts to increase manufacturing capacity and offer multi-fab sourcing on three continents. With the acquisition of the Micron fab in Japan, we doubled our internal capacity, strengthened our presence in the Asia-Pacific region, and moved closer to some of our major suppliers, enhancing our synergies and relationships while reducing costs. Currently we are manufacturing products for Micron in this facility … » read more

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