Specialist ASICs supplier GE Aviation has announced a teaming agreement with Taiwanese company IC Nexus to give European design engineers access to low cost, low power and low leakage sub-100 nanometre (nm) ASICs.

To meet these requirements GE Aviation has teamed up with IC Nexus, a Taiwanese company specialising in sub 100 nm design and foundry processes.  

Through IC Nexus, GE Aviation is now able to offer clients access to Fujitsu’s state-of-the-art 90 nm CMOS process and the 65 nm one which is in development.  These are ideally suited to the hand-held device market because they produce ASICs with extremely low current leakage.

GE Aviation will support design engineers at every stage in the process of specifying, prototyping and final production of the sub 100 nm ASICs, based on its unparalleled experience of design and manufacture of such components.