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III-V and display products,” said Kopin President and Chief Executive Officer John C.C. Fan. “Our earnings reflect our commitment to maintaining prudent expense management, while at the same time investing strategically in research and development and capacity expansion to execute our growth strategy.”
“In early April we announced the availability to select customers of Golden-i Development Kits, our revolutionary wearable, voice-activated cloud computing product, which is being developed jointly with Motorola Solutions,” Fan said. “The feedback from these customers will be reflected in the Golden-i products which are scheduled for general availability in 2012. Just as many compelling applications have been created for the iPhone and Android platforms, we see significant opportunities for developers to write applications for Golden-i.”
Business Outlook
“We are excited about the Company’s growth prospects,” Fan said. “We continue to expect III-V to grow at an annualised rate of 20-25% over the next several years, driven primarily by global smartphone demand. In our display business, as is the historic pattern, revenue from military applications fluctuates quarter to quarter but we expect strong military revenues in 2011 as we continue to supply the US Army’s Thermal Weapons Sight program.”
“Looking ahead, we are focused on our two main goals: extending the leadership position of our III-V products to take advantage of the expected growth in smartphones and tablets; and advancing the development schedule for Golden-i toward a planned launch in 2012,” Fan continued. “We started 2011 on a very good note, with strong operating results and in excellent financial condition, with $99 million of cash and no debt.”
Based on the current business environment and conversations with its customers, Kopin is affirming its full-year 2011 guidance for total revenues in the range of $130 million to $140 million.
In conjunction with its first-quarter 2011 financial results, Kopin hosted a teleconference call for investors and analysts. The call is available as an archived audio webcast on the “Investors” section of the Kopin website,
www.kopin.com .
TowerJazz touts highest speed foundry SiGe technology
The 260GHz speed and low power consumption addresses the booming high-speed communications market fuelled by the explosion in video internet traffic.
TowerJazz, a specialty foundry leader, has unveiled what it claims to be the industry’s highest speed foundry SiGe technology, the SBC18H3.
The technology addresses next-generation needs for high-speed interfaces in communication protocols such as Thunderbolt, optical fibre, and high-data rate wireless by improving performance while reducing noise and power consumption of key building blocks. SBC18H3 also targets applications such as automotive collision avoidance systems, millimetre-wave radar and GHz imaging.
SBC18H3 is TowerJazz’s third generation 0.18 mm SiGe technology and offers transistors with 240GHz Ft and 260GHz Fmax in a cost-effective and analogue-friendly 0.18 mm node. The technology is built on the same mature integration platform used for the prior two TowerJazz SiGe processes now in high-volume production (SBC18H2 at 200GHz and SBC18HX at 155GHz).
IP of high-speed components such as TIAs, Laser Drivers, SerDes, CDRs from H2 and HX can be readily ported to the new H3 process since they are all in the same 0.18 mm node, allowing them to benefit from improved performance as well as reduced power consumption and noise.
Power consumption is dramatically reduced with H3 where, for example, a 77GHz amplifier can be made to consume three times less DC power than was possible with older technology. At the same time, noise is improved to levels that far exceed those of prior SiGe technology and are superior to numbers typically reported for more expensive III-V material systems (minimum noise figure at 20GHz is measured at less than 1dB and at 40GHz at only 2dB). This can be important in many communication systems but particularly in wireless applications, improving sensitivity of GPS systems, for example.
October 2011
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