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Roundup: FD-SOI & Ecosystem Shine at Semicon West

Posted by on July 16, 2012
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A major highlight at this year’s Semicon West in San Francisco was a panel discussion by industry thought-leaders gathered to discuss the current challenges facing the mobile industry.  It was an impressive line-up of key players from the ecosystem at the forefront of fully-depleted, SOI based technologies, including: ARM: Ron Moore – Director of Strategic …

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GlobalFoundries to Fab 28/20nm FD-SOI Chips for ST; ST Technology Open to Other GF Customers

Posted by on June 13, 2012
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Two big pieces of news have just been announced by STMicroelectronics: to supplement in-house production at Crolles, the company has tapped GlobalFoundries for high-volume production of 28nm then 20nm FD-SOI mobile devices; ST will open access to its FD-SOI technology to GlobalFoundries’ other customers. The high-volume manufacturing will kick off with ST-Ericsson’s ARM-based 28nm NovaThor. …

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NovaThor SmartPhone Chip on 28nm FD-SOI: ST-Ericsson Blogger Tells All; PC Mag Sees Light Thumbnail

NovaThor SmartPhone Chip on 28nm FD-SOI: ST-Ericsson Blogger Tells All; PC Mag Sees Light

Posted by on May 30, 2012
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To paraphrase the song, “What a difference a day would make.”  Searching to plug into the nearest power strip each afternoon, active smartphone users would certainly agree with that. But ST-Ericsson’s next-gen NovaThor chips on 28nm FD-SOI (available for design now), which are looking to get an extra day out of your battery, should put …

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Consortium Website – What’s New

Posted on May 2, 2012
In ASN #19, Special supplement: SOI Industry Consortium

Presentations At the SOI Consortium’s 6th FD-SOI workshop (held just after ISSCC), excellent talks were given by STMicroelectronics, IBM, ARM, Leti, Soitec, Accelicon and UC Berkeley. Most of the presentations are freely available for downloading from the SOI Consortium website. As Horacio Mendez, Executive Director of the SOI Consortium concluded, this workshop was great. “We’ve …

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FD-SOI – A Look at Consortium Benchmarking Results

Posted on May 2, 2012
In ASN #19, Special supplement: SOI Industry Consortium

STMicroelectronics, IBM, ARM, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Soitec and other leading semiconductor companies in the SOI Consortium recently participated in a benchmarking study. Each tackling different aspects, they detailed the interest of planar FD-SOI as early as the 28nm and 20nm technology nodes, in terms of performance, power and manufacturability. The joint research was performed by using an …

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