March 24, 2010 (FinancialWire) — Sanmina-SCI Corp. (NASDAQ: SANM), an electronics manufacturing services firm, and GigOptix (OTCBB: GGOX), a provider of electronic engines, have formed a manufacturing partnership to produce GigOptix' high bandwidth polymer modulator designed for 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s long-haul optical transponders.

Dave Dutkowsky, EVP of Sanmina-SCI's communications infrastructure division said his firm will be providing GigOptix with design, process development, test development, manufacturing and supply chain management services across Sanmina-SCI's global optical infrastructure, including its optical manufacturing capability in China.

The first product for the partnership to be brought to production is the GigOptix LX8401, a 40Gb/s DPSK Mach-Zehnder modulator, which is planned to be fully qualified for volume production in the fourth quarter of 2010.

GigOptix, in partnership with Sanmina-SCI, plans to bring a line of modulators to production to address the various modulation formats for telecom and RF communication market applications. The polymer modulator chips are designed, developed and produced by GigOptix while the optical packaging is jointly developed and then manufactured by Sanmina-SCI.

California-based GigOptix is a fabless manufacturer of electronic engines for the digital market. The company offers a portfolio of high speed electronic devices including polymer electro-optic modulators, modulator drivers, laser drivers and TIAs for telecom, datacom, Infiniband and consumer optical systems, covering serial and parallel communication technologies from 1G to 100G.

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