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Unique Hitless Adaptive Coding and Modulation Ensures Availability During One of India’s Rainiest Monsoon Seasons

PETACH TIKVA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Siklu, provider of the EtherHaul millimeter wave wireless backhaul solution, has announced that its radio performed flawlessly in a challenging trial in Mumbai, India, during the 2011 monsoon season.

A leading Indian mobile operator led a six-month trial and concluded that the Siklu EtherHaul delivers a robust wireless backhaul solution under all weather conditions. Having already established a leading position in the European E-band backhaul market, Siklu is now poised to deliver its low-cost, high-capacity backhaul to the Indian market.

A series of EtherHaul links were deployed at various distances and their performance and availability were monitored for an entire monsoon season in Mumbai. The monsoon in that region is one of the harshest in India, and the 2011 season was particularly challenging.

As a result of this trial, Siklu has demonstrated that its EtherHaul E-band systems can be effectively used in India, for last mile backhaul of mobile and business services.

“We are pleased with the performance of the Siklu EtherHaul trial in the Indian weather conditions,” said an executive of the operator. “Now we can benefit from the underutilized E-band spectrum and deliver high-capacity at a very low cost as soon as the pricing of the spectrum will be finalized.”

Siklu excelled in the E-band trial thanks to its unique hitless adaptive bandwidth, coding and modulation capabilities (ABCM™) that provide a very large dynamic range. This exceptional ABCM implementation allows the EtherHaul to cope with high attenuation, ensuring reliable performance even under very rainy conditions.

Siklu will be exhibiting at Mobile World Congress, February 27-March 1 in Barcelona, showcasing its EtherHaul millimeter wave systems in Hall 2, 2C72, and Hall 6, C50.

About Siklu

Siklu has been committed to reducing the cost of high capacity wireless backhaul solutions since 2008. The company's success centers on an innovative silicon-based design of the millimetric wave radio system and components that has resulted in the lowest cost millimeter wave systems available. The EtherHaul radios deliver gigabit speeds over the millimetric wave spectrum and are ideal for urban wireless backhaul of macro, micro and picocells. Serving providers around the world, Siklu Communication is based near Tel Aviv, Israel.

Dux Public RelationsKevin Tanzillo, +903-865-1078E-mail: kevin at duxpr.comorSiklu Communication LtdGaby Junowicz, +972-3-9214015VP Marketing and Business DevelopmentFax: +972-3-9214162E-mail: gaby dot j at siklu.com

Source: Siklu

Hong Kong, Feb 9, 2012 - (ACN Newswire) - The 22nd edition of the HKTDC Education & Careers Expo opened today and continues through 12 February, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). This year, 720 exhibitors from 14 countries and regions are taking part in the event, which features the latest information on education and continual learning, as well as a wealth of opportunities for career advancement and new business.Study in the Chinese MainlandThe expo features four theme days this year: Study in the Chinese mainland, Study in Europe, Australian Education Day, and Study in the United States. Today's focus on the mainland is particularly noteworthy, given the recent Ministry of Education announcement of a pilot scheme allowing 63 mainland post-secondary institutions to admit Hong Kong students based on their Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination or Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination results.This year, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, Hua Qiao University, Jimei University and Jinan University are among the Chinese post-secondary institutions taking part in the expo.Today's mainland focus features an afternoon seminar, "Road to Universities in the Chinese mainland." "Multiple Pathways and Introduction to E-APP," presented by the Hong Kong SAR Government's Education Bureau, also looks at expanding options for Hong Kong students. Super Voice WinnerIn all, this year's expo programme counts more than 60 events, including seminars, workshops, celebrity-sharing sessions and virtual classrooms. Professional talks and seminars spotlight careers ranging from the performing arts and marketing to the beauty, hospitality and airline industries.Featured speakers include: Mag Lam, winner of Hong Kong's TV singing contest Super Voice 2; Joseph Wong, Visiting Professor, Department of Public & Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong; Dr Sammy Lam, drama scholar; Kearen Pang, multimedia producer; and Nelson Chow, Chairman of the Hong Kong Sommelier Association. In addition, expo workshops spotlight such areas as CV and cover-letter writing, English for business communication, interview skills and personality profiling.Theme ZonesThis year's expo presents five zones: Careers, Creative Education, Local Education, Outside Hong Kong Education (Australia, Canada, the Chinese mainland, Europe and the United States) and Professional Associations and Bodies.Corporations taking part include Abercrombie & Fitch, Centaline Financial Services Ltd, the Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company Ltd, Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Ltd, Leader Builder and Manulife (International) Ltd. A variety of government departments and professional bodies are also on hand.Visitors are welcome to visit the expo free of charge.Expo Website: http://www.hktdc.com/hkeducationexpo Programme: http://hkeducationexpo.hktdc.com/pdf/event2012/Seminars_Schedule.pdfAbout HKTDCA statutory body established in 1966, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) is the international marketing arm for Hong Kong-based traders, manufacturers and service providers. With more than 40 global offices, including 11 on the Chinese mainland, the HKTDC promotes Hong Kong as a platform for doing business with China and throughout Asia. The HKTDC also organises trade fairs and business missions to connect companies with opportunities in Hong Kong and on the mainland, while providing information via trade publications, research reports and online. For more information, please visit: www.hktdc.com .Follow us on Twitter @HKTDCContact:

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CAMBRIDGE, U.K. & MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Nujira Ltd, the world’s leader in Envelope Tracking technology, and TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, today announced that Nujira has selected TowerJazz as its foundry partner for its recently announced Envelope Tracking (ET) integrated circuit (IC) for mobile handsets. The NCT-L1100 is Nujira’s first chip in its Coolteq.L product family of High Accuracy Tracking ET modulators designed to significantly increase RF power amplifier (PA) efficiencies in mobile handsets. The new chip also marks Nujira’s shift to a fabless business model to address the high volume, global smartphone and mobile device market.

“Our new IC for mobile handsets is hugely significant for the business and strategically, so it was absolutely critical that we selected the right foundry partner,” commented Tim Haynes, CEO, Nujira. “TowerJazz’s processes offered us the ideal combination of power management and high performance analog technology to meet the challenging requirements of ET ICs. The TowerJazz process is a superb platform on which to base future integration of Envelope Tracking, RF PA and switch technologies to provide the industry with fully monolithic front end solutions.”

Patrick McNamee, Nujira’s VP of Silicon Operations added: “As the world’s largest specialist analog foundry, TowerJazz offers us the modeling expertise, capacity and security of supply we need to address the high volume smartphone market, and we welcome them as a key part of our world class supply chain.” Nujira’s NCT-L1100 is fabricated in TowerJazz’s well proven 0.18 micron CMOS process and takes advantage of the years of careful analog design and process modeling.

“Nujira’s technology has huge potential for the mobile handset market, so we are excited to be their partners and to be supporting them in the development of their Envelope Tracking ICs,” said Dr Marco Racanelli, Senior Vice President & General Manager of RF and High Performance Analog Business Group. “With foundry capacity on three continents, TowerJazz offers a unique combination of specialty processes and wafer capacity, enabling high growth fabless IC companies like Nujira to rely on us as their silicon supplier.”

Nujira’s NCT-L1100 will be available in small footprint Wafer-level Chip Scale Package (WLCSP). Nujira provides platform chipset vendors with evaluation boards and engineering support for integration into reference designs for smartphones and data devices. The NCT-L1100 is sampling now to lead partners with general availability in Q4 2012.

About Nujira

Nujira’s mission is to dramatically improve the energy efficiency of transmitters for 3G and 4G handsets, base stations and TV broadcast applications by reducing the amount of waste energy dissipated as heat in the RF Power Amplifier circuit. Nujira’s patented Coolteq® Modulator technology dynamically controls the power supply to the circuit in line with the amplitude of the signal, enabling the creation of highly efficient RF Power Amplifiers. Today Coolteq technology powers the industry’s most energy efficient and highest performing 4G base stations and TV broadcast transmitters. Nujira is now applying the same energy efficient technology to smartphones and other portable wireless devices. A fabless semiconductor company located in Cambridge, UK, with design centres in Cambridge, Bath and Edinburgh, Nujira is enabling the design of cost-effective multi-mode, multi-band handsets that deliver faster data rates, longer battery life, and better coverage.

About TowerJazz

Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ: TSEM) (TASE: TSEM), the global specialty foundry leader, its fully owned U.S. subsidiary Jazz Semiconductor Ltd., and its fully owned Japanese subsidiary TowerJazz Japan, LTD, operate collectively under the brand name TowerJazz, manufacturing integrated circuits with geometries ranging from 1.0 to 0.13-micron. TowerJazz provides industry leading design enablement tools to allow complex designs to be achieved quickly and more accurately and offers a broad range of customizable process technologies including SiGe, BiCMOS, Mixed-Signal and RFCMOS, CMOS Image Sensor, Power Management (BCD), and Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) as well as MEMS capabilities. To provide multi-fab sourcing, TowerJazz maintains two manufacturing facilities in Israel, one in the U.S., and one in Japan with additional capacity available in China through manufacturing partnerships. For more information, please visit www.towerjazz.com.

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This press release includes forward-looking statements, which are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results may vary from those projected or implied by such forward-looking statements. A complete discussion of risks and uncertainties that may affect the accuracy of forward-looking statements included in this press release or which may otherwise affect TowerJazz’s business is included under the heading "Risk Factors" in Tower’s most recent filings on Forms 20-F, F-3, F-4 and 6-K, as were filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and the Israel Securities Authority and Jazz’s most recent filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, as were filed with the SEC, respectively. Tower and Jazz do not intend to update, and expressly disclaim any obligation to update, the information contained in this release.

TowerJazzMedia Contact:Lauri Julian, 949-715-3049lauri.julian@towerjazz.comorInvestor Relations Contact:Noit Levi, +972 4 604 7066noit.levi@towerjazz.comorNujira Press contact:EML WildfireBen Smith, Senior Account ManagerPhone: +44 20 8408 8000nujira@emlwildfire.comorNujira contact:Jeremy Hendy, VP Sales & Marketing+44 1223 597900jeremy.hendy@nujira.com

Source: TowerJazz