If you’re going to be at the upcoming International Symposium on VLSI Technology, Systems and Applications (aka VLSI-TSA), you won’t want to miss the FD-SOI Technology Forum on Monday night, April 22nd, 2013. (Not to worry if you won’t be in Taiwan – these workshops are now in their 5th year, and the presentations from …
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In a recent press release, the SOI wafer leader Soitec said that chips built on its SOI wafers were found in over half of the smartphones and tablets in the market worldwide. 50%? That’s a lot! How do they figure that? The answer: RF. With all the talk right now about FD-SOI for application processors, …
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You saw the video of the STMicroelectronics demo at the recent CES in Las Vegas – the one of the ST-Ericsson 28nm FD-SOI NovaThor L8580, right? It’s billed as a 2.5GHz chip – an industry best, but the video showed it clocking at 2.8GHz. Well now the ST-E & ST folks are saying they can …
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The 2013 Common Platform Technology Forum showcased “the latest technological advances being delivered to the world’s leading electronics companies,” so of course SOI-based topics were well-represented. Happily, those of us who weren’t able to get over to Silicon Valley were able to attend “virtually” via a live stream (which is now reposted – click here …
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The YouTube video Introduction to FD-SOI by STMicroelectronics and ST-Ericsson has generated enormous coverage in the press as well as in-depth discussions across various user groups in LinkedIn. In its first two weeks, it had over 3000 YouTube views, and LinkedIn postings of it generated over 50 Likes and Comments in a single group. As …
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The Move to Fully-Depleted
• FD-SOI: ST/Chery interview; CMP's MPW runs; IBS on cost-savings
• FD & wafers: SEH & Soitec
• IBM's Fin-on-Oxide/FinFET
• SOI Consortium – FD-SOI & wafer capacity for mobile
FD-SOI Industrialization
• Technology: ST/Soitec white paper excerpts
• Apps – ST-Ericsson's NovaThor at 28nm (interview)
• 20nm & Beyond: Chenming Hu; Leti
• Wafers: Soitec's Roadmap
• SOI Consortium – benchmarking
SOI on the Roadmaps
• FD-SOI: ST & 28nm SOCs; ARM & design porting
• Apps – NXP automotive sensors, AMD 32nm Bulldozer
• SOI Conference (IBM, Intel, Leti, GloFo, ST, ARM, Peregrine & more)
• SOI Consortium – FD-SOI whitepaper overview & excerpts
FD-SOI: The Right Choice & more
• Planar FD-SOI - wafers, Consortium update
• Apps – Xbox 360 CPU/GPU, ST/power
• GlobalFoundries on ESD
• Wafer stacking, MEMS, photonics & more
