Communicant Semiconductor Technologies

Communicant Semiconductor Technologies AG was a company based in Frankfurt , Eastern Germany, that aimed to mass-produce integrated circuits based on a carbon-doped silicon-germanium technology. The technology was developed by a local institute founded during the Communist era, Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics .
IHP was founded as Institut für Halbleiterphysik , on December 22, 1983, from the research part of its parent organization, de:Halbleiterwerk Frankfurt "), then the largest IC factory in East Germany. HFO itself was founded in 1959. On the eve of reunification the plant had 8000 employees.

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