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TriQuint inaugurates new international headquarters in Singapore
The new office will support the firm’s growing global customers and strengthen operational efficiencies
TriQuint Semiconductor has officially opened TriQuint International Pte Ltd, its new International Headquarters in Singapore.
The facility will be the focal point for most international customers, suppliers and manufacturing partners.
Europe. Singapore is a great location to recruit and develop experienced talent, given the number of multi-national semiconductor companies already located here” adds Glen Riley, Vice President and Managing Director, TriQuint International Pte Ltd. “Over time we also plan to work on technology innovations and new product designs out of Singapore, through close collaboration with international customers.”
GaAs VCSELs help to transfer a trillion bits of information
IBM has found a novel technique of speeding up data transfer rates using tiny holes in a single quarter-inch chip using gallium arsenide
Imagine how long it would take to download 500 high definition movies.
It could take quite a while to transport the terabits of data you’d need with the technology we have today.
“Our business outside of the United States now contributes about 70 percent of the company’s annual revenue,” says Ralph Quinsey, President and CEO of TriQuint. “With Asia’s appetite for new technologies, particularly in mobile devices, and government support of the latest communications infrastructure, we believe Asia will continue to offer great opportunities for business growth. It is with that long term view that we further globalise our business, in order to strengthen our relationships with international customers and drive greater efficiencies across our supply chain.”
The new TriQuint International Headquarters is located at the Changi Business Park, close to Singapore’s Changi International Airport. This office will offer dedicated resources in a wide variety of areas ranging from customer service to supply chain management.
“We are pleased that TriQuint Semiconductor is establishing its International Headquarters in Singapore. The headquarters is testimony to Singapore’s competitiveness as a preferred location for companies to gain supply chain efficiencies,” comments Chong Joon Woon, Director of the Electronics Economic Development Board of Singapore.
TriQuint has just completed its sixth consecutive year of record revenue, largely driven by the proliferation of smartphones, tablets and the emergence of 3G/4G broadband wireless. Customers in Asia drove a big part of this growth and manufacturing partners in Asia assembled and tested almost all of the high volume TriQuint-designed products sold into these applications.
“We have solid plans to grow our share in the mobile device and network communications markets in Asia and
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Now IBM scientists say they have developed a new compact prototype which efficiently delivers ultra-high interconnect bandwidth to power future supercomputer and data centre applications.
IBM’s optical chipset, dubbed “Holey Optochip”, is claimed to be the first parallel optical transceiver to transfer one trillion bits, or one terabit of information, per second. It integrates 850 nm GaAs based VCSELs with silicon.
With the ability to move information at blazing speeds – eight times faster than parallel optical components available today – the breakthrough could transform how data is accessed, shared and used for a new era of communications, computing and entertainment.
And you could download those 500 HD movies in a flash.
The raw speed of one transceiver is equivalent to the bandwidth consumed by 100,000 users at today’s typical 10 Mb/s high-speed internet access. Or, it would take just around an hour to transfer the entire U.S. Library of Congress web archive through the transceiver.
Progress in optical communications is being driven by an explosion of new applications and services as the amount of data being created and transmitted over corporate and consumer networks continues to grow.
At one terabit per second, IBM says its latest advance in optical chip technology provides unprecedented amounts of bandwidth that could one day ship loads of data.
This will affect our modern world; social media sites, digital pictures and videos posted online, sensors used to gather climate information, and transaction records of online purchases to name but a few.
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