LFoundry wins Japanese view finder display work
The fast response of the FLCOS technology makes it suitable for low power EVFs and head mounted display (HMDs), LFoundry said.
LFoundry, formerly based in Landshut, Germany, recently separated a wafer fab at Rousset, France, off from its business, which was declared bankrupt on Dec. 26, 2013 and has closed with the loss of 600 jobs. LFoundry has also been cited in a class-action lawsuit filed in New York that alleges Atmel conspired to sell the Rousset wafer fab to LFoundry fraudulently.
Meanwhile the company was in the process of acquiring a stake in a 200mm wafer fab in Avezzano from Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
LFoundry said it has recently changed its top management and moved the headquarters to Avezzano, while keeping sales, markting and R&D at Landshut, Germany. LFoundry Srl can supply analog manufacturing service with a capacity of 40,000 wafer starts per month, and includes 90nm CMOS and copper metal amongst its capabilities, the company said. LFoundry also supports customers with proprietary 150nm and 110nm CMOS processes and supporting IP.
"The advanced technical capability and excellent quality of LFoundry makes them the perfect partner for the manufacture of our FLCOS portfolio and the rapid development of our aggressive EVF and HMD product roadmap," said Sekiguchi Kanetaka, director, responsible for electronic devices at Citizen Finetech Miyota, in a statement issued by LFoundry.
"Japan is a strategic market for LFoundry. Given the current trend in that country toward a fab-lite or even fabless business model that will raise increasing demand for flexible, high quality, IP protective foundry partners," said Gunther Ernst, LFoundry CEO, in the same statement.
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