Elonics announced that it has chosen Unisem Europe as its lead test and packaging partner for the production release of its new E4000 CMOS RF tuner. The E4000, to be introduced towards the end of 2008, is the first in a family of products designed for reception of all major world-wide fixed and handheld terrestrial digital multimedia
broadcast standards within UHF to L-Band ranges (64MHz to 1.70GHz), including DVB-T, DVB-H, ISDB-T, DMB, DAB and FM Radio.

Commenting on the decision, Alf Sheppard, VP of Operations at Elonics said, “Elonics has some extremely demanding requirements. We need the ability to ramp up production volumes quickly, and we must show our customers that our quality is second to none. Unisem’s track record of supporting European fabless semiconductor companies, providing high volume package and test solutions for the consumer electronics market, gives me great confidence that
we have a firm manufacturing foundation for the growth of our business”.

Elonics will be using Unisem’s proven QFN packaging technology. “We are pleased to be able to support up and coming fabless semiconductor companies like Elonics and thrilled to win their business”, said Bernie Ramsay, VP Sales for Unisem Europe Ltd.

About Elonics - “Wireless Silicon for a Digital Age”
Elonics Ltd. is a fabless mixed-signal semiconductor company specialising in the design and development of multi-band radio frequency (RF) IC products. Founded in 2003 and based in Livingston, United Kingdom, Elonics has developed an innovative radio frequency architecture called DigitalTune™ that is the foundation for a family of re-configurable CMOS RF front end products.

Elonics innovative technology allows manufacturers to design high performance multi-band radio transceivers with unrivalled power consumption and low system cost. Elonics products are targeted at high volume portable consumer electronics applications that require wireless multi-media connectivity where size, performance, price and power consumption are paramount.

Elonics’ first product family is the E4000 series of silicon tuner solutions targeted at the reception of multi-standard digital TV and radio including DVB-T, ISDB-T, T-DMB, DVB-H, ISDB-H, DMB-T, DAB and FM radio.

About Unisem (www.unisem-eu.com)
Unisem Europe is part of the Unisem (M) Berhad company, a leading semiconductor packaging and test services company in Malaysia. Unisem has its main packaging and testing facilities in Ipoh, Malaysia with additional packaging and testing facilities in Wales, United Kingdom, Chengdu, PRC, Batam, Indonesia, and Sunnyvale, California, USA. Unisem offers an integrated suite of packaging and test services for semiconductor companies such as wafer probe, a wide range of leadframe and substrate IC packaging, high-end RF and mix-signal test, tape & reel and drop-shipment services.