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News Release from: Teravicta Technologies
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 10 September 2002

RF MEMS switches to enter high-volume production

Teravicta Technologies has signed an agreement with Read Rite Corp to use Read Rite's manufacturing capabilities for the high-volume production of its line of low-loss high-linearity RF MEMS switches.

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Teravicta Technologies has signed an agreement with Read Rite Corp to use Read Rite's manufacturing capabilities for the high-volume production of its line of low-loss high-linearity RF MEMS switches. Teravicta currently produces its RF MEMS switches on its own low-volume pilot production line. The alliance with Read-Rite will transition Teravicta's RF MEMS technology to high volume production at Read-Rite.

"We are very excited to be working with Read-Rite, one of the leading suppliers of magnetic recording heads", said Robert Miracky, Teravicta's President.

"Magnetic recording heads currently represent the largest segment in the MEMS marketplace today with over 1.1 billion units produced annually.

The low cost, high quality manufacturing capabilities of Read-Rite provide an excellent synergy with the manufacturing requirements of RF MEMS switches".

"Teravicta's RF MEMS switch technology has clear performance, cost, and reliability advantages over other solutions", said Andrew C Holcomb, Read-Rite's Senior Vice President of Business Development and the company's CFO.

Added Holcomb, "Teravicta's RF MEMS switch already has been sampled by leading wireless product companies, whose evaluation has shown that the RF performance of Teravicta's switch is far superior to that of conventional alternatives.

Read-Rite's existing manufacturing infrastructure is a perfect fit for high-volume production of RF MEMS switches, and enables us to leverage our current process technologies and capital assets.

We look forward to working with Teravicta on these and future products".

"Teravicta's alliance with Read-Rite to provide high volume manufacturing of Teravicta RF MEMS switches marks a significant step in the commercialisation of RF MEMS technology", said Russ Craig, Research Director, Semiconductors at the Aberdeen Group.

"Teravicta's partnership with Read-Rite will provide significant cost reductions while achieving the quality levels required for high-volume wireless products".

Teravicta and Read-Rite are on a fast pace to transfer Teravicta technology into Read-Rite manufacturing to enable qualified production in 2003.

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