MegaChips to Highlight 16nm Platform Technologies for Next-Generation ASICs at DAC 2018

MegaChips to Highlight 16nm Platform Technologies for Next-Generation ASICs at DAC 2018

Latest technologies enable creation of smaller, faster and smarter products for innovation-driven markets – automotive, communications, factory and office automation

San Jose, Calif., – June 20, 2018 — MegaChips, a global semiconductor company specializing in ASICs and Application Specific Standard Products (ASSPs), today announced it will feature 16nm platform technologies for next-generation ASICs at DAC 2018, booth #2146, June 25-27, at Moscone Center West in San Francisco. These technologies allow engineers to achieve the dense integration, power savings, and cost advantages demanded by today’s highly competitive markets including automotive, communication, factory and office automation.

MegaChips has partnered with TSMC, UMC, and other leading foundries to bring our advanced mixed-signal IP to the latest 16nm platform technologies with 50% faster and 60% lower power than 28nm process technologies. This opens up a whole new world of innovation for such as factory robots and optical networks.

The DAC 2018 16nm lineup includes:

  • Gigabit-Class Data Converters – Designed for 5G or other high-speed systems, the fastest 16nm data converter IP in the world, with 14-bit ADCs and 12-bit DACs capable of 3.4Gbps and 6.8Gbps speeds. Available Q4, 2019.
  • Ultrafast SerDes Interfaces – Enable easily built, fast, compact devices capable of delivering up to 16Gbps over four lanes; made for high-speed LVDS interfaces, such as PCI Express, XAUI, SATA, and USB 3.0. Available Q4, 2019

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About MegaChips Corporation (“MegaChips”)
MegaChips Corporation (1st section of the TSE (Tokyo Stock Exchange): 6875) was established in 1990 as the first innovative fabless semiconductor company in Japan. MegaChips exploits expertise in analog, digital and MEMS technology and globally provides LSIs and solutions that are crucial for advancing technology innovation.
MegaChips Corporation Home Page.

Press Contact (MegaChips Technology America Corporation):
Sacha Arts
Slider & Associates
(408) 458-6316 (mobile)
sacha@sliderassociates.com

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MEDIA ALERT: SiTime Demonstrates Innovative MEMS-Based Timing and Synchronization Solutions in 5G Pavilion at IMS2018

MEDIA ALERT: SiTime Demonstrates Innovative MEMS-Based Timing and Synchronization Solutions in 5G Pavilion at IMS2018

PHILADELPHIA, June 11, 2018 – IMS 2018 – SiTime Corporation, the market leader in MEMS timing, invites attendees of the International Microwave Symposium (IMS2018) to Booth 1433 in the 5G Pavilion, where they can view a demonstration of our innovative MEMS-based timing solutions for 5G.

5G is expected to transform connectivity with significantly higher bandwidth and lower latency. These features, offered after network densification and infrastructure upgrades, are expected to enable a host of new services such as network slicing and virtualization, broadband everywhere, faster machine-to-machine connectivity as well as automated driver assistance systems (ADAS).

In a dense 5G network that transmits at higher speeds, radio-to-radio time accuracy must be within 65 nanoseconds – 20 times better than 4G. SiTime’s MEMS-based timing solutions enable this crucial requirement by ensuring synchronization in the toughest environment, such as in the presence of disturbers such as shock, vibration, rapid temperature changes, and extreme temperatures. SiTime’s solutions do this while offering 20 times better reliability and one-fifth the power.

Demonstration Highlights:

SiTime will showcase our Elite family of Super-TCXOs, including:

  • Demonstration highlighting the robustness of SiTime’s solutions that enable 5G densification and operate under harsh operating conditions including rapid airflow, fast temperature transients, and vibration.
  • Dynamic performance of the SiTime oscillator, with DualMEMS™ technology, will be compared to the performance of a best-in-class quartz precision oscillator in side-by-side tests.

SiTime will also be presenting at the time and location below. The presentation will detail SiTime’s over-temperature stability and the impact of the oscillator frequency-over-temperature slope (ΔF/ΔT) performance, which plays a critical role in time accuracy during clock recovery with 5G networks.

Presentation Highlights:

Title: Overcoming 5G Time Synchronization Challenges
Date: Tuesday, June 12, 11:30-12:00 pm and Thursday, June 14, 10:00-10:30 am
Location: 5G Pavilion Theater, Booth 1433

More Information

About SiTime
SiTime Corporation, the market leader in MEMS timing and a wholly owned subsidiary of MegaChips Corporation (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 6875), offers MEMS-based silicon timing solutions that replace legacy quartz products. SiTime’s configurable solutions enable customers to differentiate their products with higher performance, smallest size, lowest power, and best reliability. The rich feature set and flexibility of SiTime’s solutions allow customers to consolidate their supply chain, reducing the cost of ownership and time to market. By using standard semiconductor processes and high-volume packaging, SiTime offers the best availability and shortest lead times in the industry. With 90% market share and over 1 billion devices shipped, SiTime is driving the electronics industry to use 100% silicon-based timing. www.sitime.com.

About MegaChips Corporation (“MegaChips”)
MegaChips Corporation (1st section of the TSE (Tokyo Stock Exchange): 6875) was established in 1990 as the first innovative fabless semiconductor company in Japan. MegaChips exploits expertise in analog, digital and MEMS technology and globally provides LSIs and solutions that are crucial for advancing technology innovation.

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MegaChips Makes Strategic Investment in Sckipio

MegaChips Makes Strategic Investment in Sckipio

Complementary Partnership Helps Speed up Gfast Access to the Global Market

San Jose, Calif. – May 8 2018 —– MegaChips Corporation, a global semiconductor company specializing in ASICs and A pplication Specific Standard Products (ASSPs), today announced it is the lead investor in a $10 million round in Israeli company Sckipio, a leader in Gfast products. MegaChips’ strategic investment underscores the complementary partnership and will accelerate Gfast penetration globally, particularly in Japan. Intel Capital, Pitango Venture Partners, Genesis Partners, Gemini Israel Ventures, Amiti Ventures, Aviv Ventures, CIRTech Fund and Axess Ventures also invested in the $10 million round.

The investment expands on MegaChips’ and Sckipio’s existing six-year relationship, and MegaChips and Sckipio will cooperate in developing new solutions for new markets.

“Demand for Gfast products is ramping up quickly as consumers and businesses desire affordable, ultra-high-speed broadband solutions, and our partnership with Sckipio helps us drive these solutions to market quickly,” said Akira Takata, MegaChips president and CEO. “This joint effort underscores our commitment to help enhance our customers’ competitiveness and strengthens our mission in seeking to further expand our business and sustainable growth.”

“Today’s announcement represents an important and exciting step in our efforts to optimize our Gfast solution,” said David Baum, CEO and co-founder at Sckipio. “Our joint partnership with MegaChips allows us to collaborate on our respective areas of expertise and helps us build on our recent momentum as we further position ourselves as a global leader in the quickly growing Gfast space. MegaChips’ investment is a testament to the strength of our brand and the tremendous global opportunity ahead, including access to the Japanese market.”

About MegaChips Corporation (“MegaChips”)
MegaChips Corporation (1st section of the TSE (Tokyo Stock Exchange): 6875) was established in 1990 as the first innovative fabless semiconductor company in Japan. MegaChips exploits expertise in analog, digital and MEMS technology and globally provides LSIs and solutions that are crucial for advancing technology innovation.MegaChips Corporation Home Page.

About MegaChips Technology America Corporation (“MegaChips America”)
MegaChips Technology America in San Jose, California is a wholly owned subsidiary of MegaChips Corporation headquartered in Osaka, Japan (www.Megachips.com). MegaChips provides Integrated Circuits (ICs) and System on Chips (SoCs) that are essential for the advancement of Application Specific Standard Products (ASSPs). Leveraging decades of technology excellence, partnerships and acquisitions, MegaChips is shaping the next wave of the digital revolution with innovations in the Internet of Things, Communications, Displays, Mobility, Timing, Sensor Fusion and Wearable devices.
For more information, contact the company at 408-570-0555, or visit MegaChips Home Page.

About Sckipio
Sckipio, the leader in Gfast, develops award-winning, standards-compliant Gfast modems used to enable ultra-broadband access and mobile backhaul. Sckipio partners with more than 30 companies globally on Gfast and is one of the leading contributors to the ITU-T standard. For more information about Sckipio, visit our website at www.sckipio.com. For more information, follow us on LinkedIn, SlideShare, and Twitter @SckipioTech.

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Press Contact (MegaChips Technology America Corporation):
Sacha Arts
Slider & Associates
(408) 458-6316 (mobile)
sacha@sliderassociates.com

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MegaChips Will Showcase World’s First HD-PLC SoC for LON at Light+Building 2018

MegaChips Will Showcase World’s First HD-PLC SoC for LON at Light+Building 2018

New IEEE 1901-Compliant Solution Delivers Megabit Speeds over Long Distances for Smart City and Smart Building Networks

SAN JOSE, Calif. – March 5, 2018 — At Light+Building in Frankfurt, Germany (March 18-23, 2018), MegaChips Corporation will demonstrate its HD-PLC solution running Easylon for smart city and building applications in LonMark International’s booth (Hall 5.0, Stand D29). Easylon developed by Gesytec is fully compliant and interoperable with LonWorks. Adopted by LonMark as the new standard for high-speed wireline networks, HD-PLC brings megabit speeds—along with dramatic cost savings—to large, multi-node networks using any wire (AC/DC powerlines, twisted-pair, coax, phone lines, etc.).

HD-PLC addresses the growing bandwidth demands of modern control networks. Based on the IEEE 1901 and ITU-T G.9905 international standards, HD-PLC combines broadband communication with an innovative multi-hop technology to achieve megabit speeds over several kilometers of cabling. It supports up to 1024 nodes in any network configuration, giving system integrators all the benefits of a free topology that they enjoy with other LonWorks channels. Additionally, HD-PLC offers features such as mesh networking, dynamic traffic routing, and a network bridging functionality that make system integration easy.

The MegaChips BlueChip HD-PLC SoC (MLKHN1501) is the world’s first fully compliant HD-PLC SoC with multi-hop technology. It combines a state-of-the-art AFE with baseband, PHY, MAC layers and SDRAM into a compact package to deliver fast, bidirectional, IP-based communication over any wire. A full suite of development resources is available to enable system designers to quickly upgrade to HD-PLC.

“We’re very excited to combine the LonMark Protocol Standard with the HD-PLC media to provide a high-performance solution for control networking applications,” said Ron Bernstein, CEO and executive director of LonMark International. “Network designers, owners, and users will benefit from greater choices, performance, and design flexibility. Products tested and certified according to the LonMark Interoperability Guidelines, which will soon include the HD-PLC option, ensure the highest level of openness and interoperability.”

“One of the biggest challenges facing today’s projects is the cost of deployment,” explained Michael Navid, VP Marketing and Business Development at MegaChips. “Running new cabling or deploying wireless infrastructure is too expensive and may be limited by data rate and range. HD-PLC transforms the economics of deployment. System integrators finally have a technology that provides the bandwidth, robustness, flexibility and security demanded by today’s IoT applications.”

Learn More

Download the HD-PLC whitepaper, view data sheets, and order evaluation kits at: http://www.megachips.wpengine.com/HD-PLC.

About MegaChips Technology America Corporation (“MegaChips America”)

MegaChips America is a wholly owned subsidiary of MegaChips Corporation headquartered in Osaka, Japan. MegaChips provides Integrated Circuits (ICs) and System on Chips (SoCs) that are essential for the advancement of Application Specific Standard Products (ASSPs). Leveraging decades of technology excellence, partnerships and acquisitions, MegaChips is shaping the next wave of the digital revolution with innovations in the Internet of Things, Displays, Mobility, Sensor Fusion and Wearable devices.
For more information, contact the company at 408-570-0555, or visit MegaChips Home Page.

Press Contact (MegaChips Technology America Corporation)
Sacha Arts
Slider & Associates
(408) 458-6316 (mobile)
sacha@sliderassociates.com

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A Billion Devices from SiTime Empower Self-Driving Cars, Mobile Phones, and Everything in Between

A Billion Devices from SiTime Empower Self-Driving Cars, Mobile Phones, and Everything in Between

SANTA CLARA, Calif., February 7, 2018 —SiTime Corporation, the market leader in MEMS timing,announced today that it has shipped cumulatively over 1 billion timing devices.

“SiTime is redefining timing technology, and we’ve only just begun our journey,” said Rajesh Vashist, CEO of SiTime. “SiTime is uniquely focused on solving the most difficult timing problems for the electronics industry. That is why customers are using our timing products in self-driving cars, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence systems, and 5G infrastructure. We believe that our timing components will be the device of choice for the next few decades.”

A timing device plays a critical role in most electronic systems. When timing fails, mobile phones miss calls, GPS navigation systems send drivers down the wrong streets, and financial transactions are not completed. SiTime products help prevent events like these from happening. Devices such as mobile phones, fitness trackers, and tablets rely on the small size and low power consumption of SiTime products. Mission-critical electronics such as space rockets, self-driving vehicles, and earthquake detection systems rely on the reliability and precision of the company’s solutions.

The market for all timing devices is $6 billion, and SiTime supplies 90% of the MEMS timing components sold.

“The performance and reliability of MEMS timing have improved dramatically over the past 10 years, making it a superior alternative to legacy technologies such as quartz for many applications,” said Jérémie Bouchaud, senior director of MEMS and sensors at IHS Markit, a global business information provider. “The use of oscillators in end products, as revealed by IHS Markit teardowns, is a great validation of MEMS timing as an established technology.”

SiTime first began operations in 2005 with the goal of transforming the timing industry. Today, the company has over 60 product families, which have garnered multiple industry awards and are being used across every major electronics segment. Even in challenging environments, with shock, vibration, extreme temperatures, and heavy airflow, SiTime products continue to exhibit excellent performance. This makes the company’s timing solutions ideal for automotive, telecommunications, networking, and industrial IoT applications.

“SiTime has made impressive growth in the timing market with its strong portfolio,” said Jean-Christophe Eloy, CEO of analyst firm Yole Développement. “Their devices are gaining market share in today’s and tomorrow’s growing markets: wearables, IoT, networking, storage, and telecom. Thanks to the dedication and expertise of its teams, SiTime has made the law of semiconductors come true once again: silicon technology always wins in the end.”

To learn more about SiTime, visit www.sitime.com.

For the press image, visit http://www.sitime.com/pr-1-billion-units.

About SiTime
SiTime Corporation, the leader in MEMS timing and a wholly owned subsidiary of MegaChips Corporation (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 6875), offers MEMS-based silicon timing solutions that replace legacy quartz products. SiTime’s configurable solutions enable customers to differentiate their products with higher performance, smallest size, lowest power, and best reliability. The rich feature set and flexibility of SiTime’s solutions allow customers to consolidate their supply chain, reducing the cost of ownership and time to market. By using standard semiconductor processes and high-volume packaging, SiTime offers the best availability and shortest lead times in the industry. With 90% market share and over 1 billion devices shipped, SiTime is driving the electronics industry to use 100% silicon-based timing. www.sitime.com

Media Contact:
Mark Bajus
Director of Marketing Communications
SiTime Corporation
+1.408.495.4912
mbajus@sitime.com

About MegaChips Corporation (“MegaChips”)
MegaChips Corporation (1st section of the TSE (Tokyo Stock Exchange): 6875) was established in 1990 as the first innovative fabless semiconductor company in Japan. MegaChips exploits expertise in analog, digital and MEMS technology and globally provides LSIs and solutions that are crucial for advancing technology innovation.

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