Tower Semiconductor and pSemi Win the Prestigious Industry Paper Competition Award at IMS 2025
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Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ/TASE: TSEM) and pSemi have won the Industry Paper Competition Award at the 2025 IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) for their groundbreaking paper on RF switch technology. The award-winning research showcases Tower's PCM RF switch technology, which achieved unprecedented performance metrics including DC-110 GHz bandwidth, less than 2 dB insertion loss, and 30 dBm power handling.
The innovation demonstrates 15-20 dB improvement in linearity compared to RFSOI CMOS solutions, positioning Tower at the forefront of RF front-end technology development for 5G, future 6G, SatCom, and millimeter-wave applications.
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Award-winning paper showcases breakthroughs in wideband RF switch performance, reinforcing Tower’s leadership in advanced RF front-end innovation
MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel — July 08, 2025 — Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ/TASE: TSEM), a leading foundry of high-value analog semiconductor solutions, today announced receipt of the Industry Paper Competition Award at the 2025 IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) for their co-authored paper with pSemi — “A Low-Loss, Wideband, 0–110 GHz SPDT Using PCM RF Switches with Integrated CMOS Drivers”. The paper was presented on June 19, 2025, during IMS’s session on Innovative RF Switches, Varactor and Modulator Technologies, and won the Best Paper Award in its category.
The award recognizes Tower’s PCM RF switch as a significant innovation and advancement in RF switch technology, capable of delivering a record-breaking combination of bandwidth (DC–110 GHz), insertion loss (<2 dB), power handling (30 dBm), and linearity (+15–20 dB improvement over RFSOI CMOS solutions) — results that have not been achieved by any other RF switch technology. Enabled by Tower’s proprietary BEOL integration and integrated digital control, this combination of ultra-low-loss wideband performance, power handling, and full CMOS integration simplifies implementation for end users and enables advanced circuits for 5G, future 6G, SatCom, beamforming, and millimeter-wave applications.
“We’re honored to receive this recognition,” said Dr. Ed Preisler, Vice President and General Manager of the RF Business Unit. “This achievement reinforces our commitment to advancing RF front-end integration for the next wave of wireless devices and highlights the power of strategic partnerships like ours with pSemi.”
"We are honored to be recognized by IMS alongside Tower Semiconductor," said Rodd Novak, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, pSemi. "This award reflects our team's dedication to pushing the boundaries of wideband RF switch research and design."
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About Tower Semiconductor
Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ/TASE: TSEM), the leading foundry of high-value analog semiconductor solutions, provides technology, development, and process platforms for its customers in growing markets such as consumer, industrial, automotive, mobile, infrastructure, medical and aerospace and defense. Tower Semiconductor focuses on creating a positive and sustainable impact on the world through long-term partnerships and its advanced and innovative analog technology offering, comprised of a broad range of customizable process platforms such as SiGe, BiCMOS, mixed-signal/CMOS, RF CMOS, CMOS image sensor, non-imaging sensors, displays, integrated power management (BCD and 700V), photonics, and MEMS. Tower Semiconductor also provides world-class design enablement for a quick and accurate design cycle as well as process transfer services including development, transfer, and optimization, to IDMs and fabless companies. To provide multi-fab sourcing and extended capacity for its customers, Tower Semiconductor owns one operating facility in Israel (200mm), two in the U.S. (200mm), two in Japan (200mm and 300mm) which it owns through its
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Tower Semiconductor Company Contact: Orit Shahar | +972-74-7377440 | oritsha@towersemi.com
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