Bristol, England, November 20th, 2009 - Nanotech Semiconductor Limited (“Nanotech”), a fabless IC company specializing in advanced CMOS Analog and Mixed-Signal ICs for fiber optic communications, today announced it has re-formed a highly experienced Physical Media Dependent (‘PMD’) IC design team to assist in the Company’s future high-speed IC developments.

The team first formed in 1997, while working for Multilink Corporation, a pioneer at that time in 10Gbps PMD ICs for Telecommunications applications. Acquired in 2000 by Intel, the team spent a further 8 years designing 10Gb TIAs, Limiting Amplifiers, Laser and VCSEL drivers. These ICs were successfully taken to mass-production in Intel’s 10Gb Fiberoptic modules, with world-leading performance, for example in ‘stressed sensitivity’ in the TIA.

The team became available following the sale of Intel’s fiberoptics group.

In addition to averaging more than 10 years PMD IC design experience each, the team also has experience in other mixed-signal domains such as ADCs, DACs and CDRs. Within a typical 20+ year overall IC design history, process technologies used have included GaAs, Bipolar/SiGe and 90nm CMOS technologies.

Gary Steele, CEO, commented: "We are very pleased to welcome such a talented and experienced team to the Company. Their track-record of 10Gbps PMD IC design is second to none and combined with our existing highly experienced, high-speed CMOS team we believe we now have easily the largest, most experienced IC design team addressing this market”.

Alan Trainor, VP Engineering added: “The addition of this team gives a significant boost to our ability to rapidly execute on multiple 5 to 10Gbps CMOS ICs we are targeting for Networking and Consumer applications in 2010 and beyond”.