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TRW forms Velocium to sell InP and GaAs (GaAs News)

TRW, which has spent over a decade developing high-speed InP-based devices, has created a new company to manufacture these products for fiber-optic and wireless communication systems. The product lines of the spin-off, named Velocium, will also include TRW s current commercial GaAs components. Based in Manhattan Beach, California, Velocium will be headed by Dwight Streit, who has played an important role in TRW s advanced semiconductor development program over the last six years. This program recently culminated in the world s first 4 inch InP production facility (see ) (see Compound Semiconductor Sept/Oct 2000, p6). Velocium will use TRW s facility exclusively for the development of new products. TRW says this InP line represents the first high-volume source for InP devices, which will include integrated photoreceivers, modulator drivers and amplifiers for 40 Gbit/s fiber-optic networks, in addition to power amplifiers for 2.5G and 3G wireless handsets. The company s product development activities will take advantage of TRW s extensive design capabilities, in addition to those of selected industry partners. "TRW has invested more than $300 million to bring its advanced semiconductor capabilities to commercial markets, and we ve committed an additional $70 million this year for InP manufacturing capacity expansion and product development," said Tim Hannemann, president and CEO of TRW Space & Electronics. "Establishing Velocium as a separate business leverages this investment by focusing on these rapidly growing markets." Velocium s first InP device will be an OC-768 (40 Gbit/s) integrated photoreceiver, which will be available in volume quantities from May. Additional 10 and 40 Gbit/s optical network products will be in volume production by the summer, and wireless power amplifiers will available by 2002. "TRW started to make GaAs HBTs eight years ago, and was very successful at building these devices for companies such as Nokia and RFMD, a company that now holds 35% of the HBT market," says Velocium s new president Dwight Streit. "We see a similar opportunity opening up for InP power amplifiers, which will be used in applications operating from cellular up to millimeter bands, and which leverage the high power-added efficiency, linearity and low noise advantages of these devices. For fiber-optic transceivers, InP devices offer a speed advantage and an ability to be integrated with other devices such as photoreceivers."
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