Date: 15/11/2010

Aeroflex and Linear Tech partner targeting aerospace market for their semiconductor devices

Aeroflex Incorporated and Linear Technology Corporation has announced a long term strategic partnership to provide the North American, South American, European, Indian, Israeli, and Asian space markets with space qualified HiRel radiation tolerant monolithic semiconductor devices, hybrid modules and multi-chip modules. This partnership further expands Aeroflex's VRG86xx comprehensive line of voltage regulators. The first products released as a result of this partnership provide design engineers with 18 off-the-shelf space qualified regulators including positive and negative adjustable voltages in compact single and dual configurations. As part of the agreement, Aeroflex will assemble, test and qualify Linear Technology's RadHard (RH) die in a new range of surface mount packages.

John Buyko, Aeroflex's Executive Vice President and President of Aeroflex Microelectronic Solutions said, "This long term partnership, from two leaders in the microelectronics industry, provides the space and satellite marketplace with a full product line of high-performance, high-reliability, radiation-hardened linear regulators. This strategic announcement leverages Aeroflex's and Linear Technology's space certified, radiation qualified, manufacturing lines with Linear's best-in-class voltage regulators. This will truly enable us to better service our satellite customers."

"The combination of Aeroflex's design and packaging technology with Linear Technology's expertise in the design and manufacturing of radiation tolerant integrated circuits provides the military/space community a new level of access to space qualified RadHard precision and high performance analog solutions. This approach allows two long term participants in the space component market to collaborate in providing the space community with advanced analog products with uncompromised performance and reliability," said Bob Scott,