Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Jazz Semi, Entropic Hit Volume Production

Newport Beach-based Jazz Semiconductor and San Diego-based Entropic Communications announced this morning that the two firms have entered into volume production of Entropic's new multi-mode, hybrid silicon tuner chip. The two firms said that Entropic's tuner--which is used for digital TV and set-top box applications--is using Jazz's 0.18-micron CMOS processes. The companies did not say what their anticipated production levels would be on the product.