TOWER SEMICONDUCTOR SIGNS ON INTEGRE TECHNOLOGIES AS AN AUTHORIZED DESIGN CENTER

TOWER SEMICONDUCTOR SIGNS ON INTEGRE TECHNOLOGIES AS AN AUTHORIZED DESIGN CENTER


ROCHESTER, New York, September 3, 2003 — Integre Technologies, a seasoned team of ASIC design experts, and Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ: TSEM, TASE: TSEM), a pure-play independent wafer foundry, today announced that Integre has joined Tower's Authorized Design Center program, making Integre the first affiliate in North America. Authorized Design Centers are established to link Tower with leading Integrated Circuit (IC) design firms to provide customers with support for the Tower semiconductor fabrication flow.

Fred Rakvica, co-founder and managing partner of Integre Technologies, sees this as a key relationship: "The combination of Integre's multi-million gate SOC experience and Tower's unique capabilities in the area of digital CMOS and image sensing offer a reliable and high quality solution to our customers."

Integre offers not only digital ASIC support, but analog and mixed signal as well. "A strong relationship with a mixed-signal foundry manufacturer allows Integre to offer a wide range of options to the end customer," said Doug Zak, partner and head of the Analog Design group for Integre Technologies. "The overall goal is to provide an efficient and cost effective solution to the end customer; we are pleased to be associated with Tower."

"Tower chooses partners for the authorized design center program based on their ability to provide high-quality design services and to create IC designs that comply with Tower's manufacturing rules," said Sergio Kusevitzky, vice president of IP and design services, Tower Semiconductor. "Tower's customers benefit from the relationship by experiencing shorter design cycle times and time to revenue. Also engaging with a seasoned design center with expert knowledge of Tower Semiconductors design, intellectual property and process flows improves the chances of first time Silicon Success."

Candidates for Tower's program must undergo a rigorous screening process. Tower audits companies' technical and support capabilities, and, in some cases, financial stability to help ensure the availability of long-term support for our customers.


About Integre Technologies
Integre Technologies LLC is an ASIC/FPGA design services company with expertise in designing, verifying and manufacturing preparation of multi-million gate system on a chip ASIC designs. Comprised of seasoned ASIC consultants with decades of experience, Integre Technologies provides short and long term ASIC and FPGA support. Integre engineers have the experience and capability necessary to provide complete verification testbenches, test coverage plans, circuit design, and test vector generation. Additionally, Integre teams can assist customers with Verification and Simulations, SOC and IP Design, Digital & Analog ASIC Design, Digital FPGA Design and Mixed Signal ASIC Design.
With ASIC and FPGA experience in both the digital and analog realm, Integre Technologies offers a full complement of design services to our customers. To find out more about Integre Technologies visit: www.integretek.com

Integre Technologies is located at 3495 Winton Place, Suite E-295, Rochester, NY 14623, Telephone: 585-292-1770, Fax: 585-292-1777, info@integretek.com

About Tower Semiconductor, Ltd.
Tower Semiconductor Ltd. is a pure-play independent wafer foundry established in 1993. The company manufactures integrated circuits with geometries ranging from 1.0 to 0.18 microns; it also provides complementary manufacturing services and design support. In addition to digital CMOS process technology, Tower offers advanced non-volatile memory solutions, mixed-signal and CMOS image-sensor technologies. To provide world-class customer service, the company maintains two manufacturing facilities: Fab 1 has process technologies from 1.0 to 0.35 microns and can produce up to 20,000 150mm wafers per month. Fab 2 features 0.18-micron and below process technologies, including foundry-standard technology, and will offer full production capacity of 33,000 200mm wafers per month. The Tower Web site is located at www.towersemi.com.





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