GigOptix Expands Industrial ASIC Product Line (CX) Offering with ASIC Sunrise Product Family to Address Advanced Low-Geometry Foundry Processes

Now Offering Customizable Integrated Circuit ASIC Designs Targeting 40nm and 28nm

SAN JOSE, Calif.-- Apr. 14, 2014-- GigOptix, Inc. (NYSE MKT: GIG), a leading supplier of advanced high speed semiconductor components and Structured ASIC chips for use in various areas such as Cloud connectivity, data centers, consumer electronics links and interactive applications, through optical and wireless communications networks, today announced the launch of the newest family of products for its Industrial ASIC Product Line (CX). The new product line, named ASIC Sunrise^TM, will address high-performance designs in advanced low-geometry CMOS process nodes, accompanying the well proved and widely deployed Sunset-Rescue^TM family of products that offers customized ASIC designs at geometries from 65nm to 600nm.

The ASIC Sunrise^TM family of products will deploy the GigOptix’ low Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) cost, high-speed, low-power, and swift turn-around Structured ASIC design and skill to provide customizable CMOS ASIC solutions at 40nm, 28nm, and 14nm geometries. GigOptix’ robust ASIC Sunrise^TM capability will address the emerging and fast-growing markets of industrial intense computation that are the growth engines for many rapidly developing areas such as high-performance computers (HPC), super-computers, mega-datacenters, and algorithm-intensive cryptographic devices such as those utilized in data encryption. Hence, the Bitcoin, Litecoin and related cryptocurrency hardware providers can benefit from the newly released GigOptix ASIC Sunrise^TM platform to enhance performance in next-generation script mind systems developed by the industry leaders, as hash rates go to 100MH/s and beyond.

The Sunrise^TM ASIC roadmap has been developed in response to wide interest expressed from legacy and new customers that wish to enjoy the significant benefits of the legacy Sunset-Rescue^TM program, but through the modern low-geometries deployed now by various foundries, in order to enable their low power consumption and increased processing speed. This new family of products is available immediately for design launch at 40nm and 28nm, with initial products expected to be market ready in the 3^rd quarter of 2014.

With the release of the GigOptix ASIC Sunrise^TM family of products to compliment the Sunset Rescue^TM product family which provides a direct pin for pin compatible replacement strategy for FPGA and ASIC device designs at 65nm and larger transistor sizes such as 0.13um, 0.18um, 0.25um, 0.35um, and 0.6um, GigOptix now offers the complete spectrum of processes to be deployed by its various industrial customers, mainly in the high-speed communication, intense-computing, test and measurement, and mil-aero markets.

“We are very pleased with the quality and performance of our most recent project, recently released after a record-fast 3 months development of our 0.13um CMOS design with first time success by the GigOptix ASIC team,” said Laszlo Erdelyi, CEO and General Manager at SiliconArt, Inc. “We have chosen GigOptix as our partner for our next ASIC design in 40nm, which is already launched and expected to be released in production in 3^rd quarter of 2014. We also look forward to the launch of our future designs in 28nm with GigOptix later this year, followed by our plan for 14nm geometry device designs in 2015 to address the higher speed and lower power needs of our computation-intensive applications.”

“We are very excited to introduce our new ASIC Sunrise^TM family of products, which complete our popular line of customized ASIC devices. In doing so, we are enabling a new generation of ASICs to address many new computationally intensive applications. We are also pleased to continuously win the trust of partners such as SiliconArt in the development of their emerging line of innovative products, supporting the advanced ASIC Sunrise^TM roadmap,” said Anil Chaudhry, Vice President and General Manager of the Industrial ASIC Product Line at GigOptix. “Customers will be able to utilize GigOptix’ ASIC Sunrise^TM and immediately benefit from these customized ASICs primarily with low production costs and rapid design cycles. In addition, customers will enjoy other benefits associated with small transistor geometry, such as reduced chip area, faster data rates, low power consumption, and increased gate counts and densities for highly-integrated systems on chips (SoC). Our ASIC Sunrise^TM technology combined with our existing IP, and also the fact that we are not bound to a single CMOS process, now gives us a comprehensive ASIC portfolio with a path to address a much larger spectrum of our customers’ ASIC applications.”

GigOptix ASIC Applications

GigOptix is an established leader in the ASIC market, providing the broadest offering of value-added ASIC solutions, including Standard Cell, Structured ASIC, Custom Structured ASIC, and mixed-signal technologies. GigOptix has successfully completed more than 2000 ASIC designs over its history. A rich portfolio of analog and digital IP’s, particularly for optical applications, and complimentary technical skills in analog and digital designs, enables GigOptix to develop new products and expand its offering for various applications in established and emerging technologies. GigOptix Industrial ASIC division boasts ISO9001, ITAR, Green RoHS, MIL-883, and DO-254 capability and certifications.

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About GigOptix, Inc.

GigOptix is a leading fabless supplier of high speed semiconductor components that enable end-to-end information streaming over optical and wireless networks. The products address long haul and metro telecom applications as well as emerging high-growth opportunities for Cloud and data centers connectivity, and interactive applications for consumer electronics. GigOptix offers a unique broad portfolio of drivers and TIAs for 40Gbps, 100Gbps and 400Gbps fiber-optic telecommunications and data-communications networks, and high performance MMIC solutions that enable next generation wireless microwave systems up to 90GHz.

GigOptix also offers a wide range of digital and mixed-signal ASIC solutions in a wide range of technology geometries from 28nm to 0.6um, and enables a complete product life cycle support from swift introduction of new product through its ASIC Sunrise^TM program to extension of legacy products through its GigOptix Sunset Rescue^TM program.

About SiliconArt

Based in Milpitas, CA, SiliconArt is a leading fabless provider of application-specific hardware for computation-intensive applications. SiliconArt’s ASIC-based devices enable unparalleled hash rates and low power consumption for cryptoanalysis of scrypt algorithms, making them ideal for mining cryptocurrencies such as Litecoin and Dogecoin that utilize scrypt as a proof-of-work function. With architecture that allows users to mine at a rate of less than 3.6 cents per KHs and rapidly decreasing, and production facilities spanning three continents, SiliconArt is poised to become the world’s foremost manufacturer of Litecoin mining hardware.