With ET technology set to be adopted across the LTE smartphone industry in 2013, Nujira is ramping its Coolteq.L family to volume production. Nujira is addressing the demanding supply chain requirements of its customers, which include several household names in the handset industry, by partnering with industry leading manufacturing services companies such as ASE. Providing flexibility and superior customer support, ASE enables Nujira to achieve its packaging and test objectives quickly and effectively, whilst still maintaining high quality standards.
Nujira selected ASE’s flip-chip Wafer-Level Chip Scale Packaging (WL-CSP) to meet the stringent performance requirements for its Coolteq.L ET chips, which deliver the highest bandwidth, fastest slew rates, and lowest output impedance available in the market.
Patrick McNamee, VP of Silicon Operations, Nujira commented: “Moving into volume production is a huge step for the company, so it is absolutely critical that we select world-class supply chain partners to ensure every step of the process runs smoothly, and support the rapid volume ramps expected by our customers.
“As the world’s largest semiconductor packaging and test company, ASE offers us the expertise, capacity, reliable quality and fast cycle time we need to address the high volume, fast-moving smartphone market, and we welcome them as a key part of our world class supply chain.”
Fuyu Shih, ASE’s VP of Sales & Marketing within Europe, added: “Nujira’s technology has demonstrated potential to significantly impact the mobile handset market, so we are pleased to provide solid manufacturing and business partnership at this key point in the company’s evolution. Through delivering our proven packaging technologies and demanded capacity, we believe Nujira will move into high volume production with ease, hence more readily meeting demands of an extremely dynamic market.”
Nujira’s Coolteq.L family of ET power modulators reduces wasted energy from PAs in mobile handsets by more than 50%, cutting heat dissipation, extending battery life and boosting signal strength. Nujira announced details of the NCT-L1300, its latest ET IC, in June 2013.
About Nujira
Nujira’s mission is to dramatically improve the energy efficiency of transmitters for 3G and 4G handsets, base stations and TV broadcast applications by reducing the amount of waste energy dissipated as heat in the RF Power Amplifier circuit.
Nujira’s patented Coolteq® Modulator technology dynamically modulates the power supply to the circuit in line with the amplitude of the signal, enabling the creation of highly efficient RF Power Amplifiers. Today Coolteq technology powers the industry’s most energy efficient and highest performing 4G base stations and TV broadcast transmitters. Nujira is now applying the same energy efficient technology to smartphones and other portable wireless devices.
A fabless semiconductor company located in Cambridge, UK, with design centres in Cambridge and Edinburgh, Nujira is enabling the design of cost-effective multi-mode, multi-band handsets that deliver faster data rates, longer battery life, and better coverage.
For more information, please visit www.nujira.com, follow us on Twitter @nujira_et or view our Tumblr http://nujira.tumblr.com/
About ASE
ASE Group’s broad portfolio of technology and solutions encompass IC test program design, front-end engineering test, wafer probe, wafer bump, substrate design and supply, wafer level package, flip chip, system-in-package, final test and electronic manufacturing services. Leading the OSAT market, ASE generated sales revenues of $4.4 Billion in 2012 and employs over 40,000 people worldwide. For more on our proven packaging capabilities and our advances in 3D & TSV technologies, please visit www.aseglobal.com.
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Nujira selects ASE as packaging and test partner for handset ET chip
9 September 2013
Nujira Ltd, the world’s leader in Envelope Tracking (ET) technology, today announced that it has selected ASE as its production packaging and test partner for its Coolteq.L family of High Accuracy Tracking ET ICs.