April 16, 2015 – ams (Country Manager Jong-Deok Lee), a company specializing in high-performance analog ICs and sensors, announced at the 2015 GSA Silicon Summit that its full-service foundry business unit has unveiled a comprehensive portfolio of sensor technologies and solutions to provide foundry customers with a complete toolset capable of developing cutting-edge sensor solutions, which are currently a hot topic in the electronics industry.

Recent market technological trends, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), wearables, Industry 4.0, and smart cities, are expected to substantially drive global semiconductor growth and innovation in the microelectronics sector. New actuators and sensing solutions will enable a diverse range of new products, thereby providing tremendous business creation opportunities for established companies and innovative startups.

ams’ Full Service Foundry business unit provides a comprehensive portfolio of PDKs and IP blocks, state-of-the-art process technology, as well as product quality management services and supply chain management capabilities, enabling customers to develop optimized, state-of-the-art solutions for applications such as environmental monitoring, infrastructure and energy management, facility and home automation, and public transportation, as well as applications such as wearables, medical and healthcare monitoring systems.

Monolithic and heterogeneous integration technologies, including specialized wafer manufacturing technologies such as high-voltage CMOS for designing MEMS driver ICs and switches, SiGe-BiCMOS for low-noise and high-speed sensor interfaces, and ultra-low leakage libraries (ULL) for extending operating time in battery-powered applications, provide proven methods for “first-in-right” designs suitable for a wide range of system-on-chip (SoC) and system-in-package (SiP) solutions.

"As we move into the era of the IoT wave, partners must address the challenges of increasing system complexity, and time-to-market is becoming increasingly shorter," said Markus Wuchse, General Manager of ams' Full Service Foundry business unit. "As we are an Integrated Device Manufacturer (IDM) providing a portfolio of cutting-edge sensor solutions, our foundry customers can reduce effort and development cycles through our turnkey solutions, while significantly lowering development risks by accessing ams' massive IP portfolio."