Zetex Semiconductor

    Zetex Semiconductors is a leading provider of high performance analog semiconductor solutions for signal processing and power management.

    The company designs and manufactures a broad range of standard and application-specific linear integrated circuits and discrete semiconductor devices using a wide variety of wafer processing technologies.

    Headquartered near Manchester in the UK, Zetex employs more than 750 people worldwide. The company has two wafer fabrication plants in the UK and carries out package development, assembly and test at its facilities in Germany and China and through subcontractors in Asia.

Zetex Products

    The Zetex portfolio comprises power management and signal management products used in a huge variety of applications, such as cellular phones, digital cameras, home theater and other audio applications, hand-held games, PDAs, laptops and battery chargers, to name just a few.

    In Power Management, Zetex offers a growing range of IC products and solutions, including LED drivers for LCD back lighting, single/dual cell boost converters, current monitors, fan motor controllers and low dropout regulators. Discrete products include a wide range of low on-resistance N and P channel MOSFETs, low saturation bipolar transistors, dual transistor combination products, Schottky rectifier diodes and RF Schottky barrier diodes.

    Signal Management includes an expanding range of audio, video and satellite products such as video and high speed buffers, video amplifiers, video sync separators, filters and LNB bias controllers. Discrete signal Schottky and varactor diodes are also available.