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SiTime: Using SOI Technology to Develop High-Performance MEMS Timing Solutions Thumbnail

SiTime: Using SOI Technology to Develop High-Performance MEMS Timing Solutions

Posted by and (SiTime) on March 26, 2012
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A radical SOI-based approach puts  SiTime at the top of the fast-growing silicon-based timing market. SiTime, an analog semiconductor company, is revolutionizing the timing components industry with silicon MEMS timing solutions that replace legacy quartz products. SiTime offers oscillators (XO, SPXO), voltage-controlled oscillators (VCXO), temperature compensated oscillators (TCXO), and multi-PLL, multi-output clock generators. All these …

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ST-Ericsson’s Next-gen NovaThor: This Year, at 28nm, on FD-SOI Wafers from Soitec Thumbnail

ST-Ericsson’s Next-gen NovaThor: This Year, at 28nm, on FD-SOI Wafers from Soitec

Posted by on March 13, 2012
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Big and official FD-SOI news: Soitec has announced that the company is supplying the FD-SOI wafers for ST-Ericsson’s next-generation of NovaThor 8540 smartphone/tablet processors. Starting at the 28nm node, this marks the industry’s first industrialization of the new planar, fully-depleted technology on ultra-thin SOI wafers. Soitec has just issued an official press release, but ST-Ericsson …

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Important News Comes Out of Recent FD-SOI Workshop Thumbnail

Important News Comes Out of Recent FD-SOI Workshop

Posted by on March 9, 2012
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The SOI Consortium’s 6th FD-SOI workshop, held just after ISSCC, yielded some exciting news. Most of the presentations are freely available for downloading from the SOI Consortium website. Here are the highlights. STMicroelectronics In a terrific presentation by Giorgio Cesana, Marketing Director at STMicroelectronics, he revealed that the company would be releasing a major product …

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FD-SOI – A Look at Recent Consortium Results<br />Part 3 of 3: 20nm FD-SOI comes out way ahead Thumbnail

FD-SOI – A Look at Recent Consortium Results
Part 3 of 3: 20nm FD-SOI comes out way ahead

Posted by on February 29, 2012
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The results of the most recent SOI Consortium benchmarking study detail the interest of planar FD-SOI as early as the 28nm and 20nm technology nodes, in terms of performance, power and manufacturability. This 3-part blog series looks further at some of the implications. The SOI Industry Consortium announcement at the end of the year provided …

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FD-SOI – A Look at Recent Consortium Results<br />Part 2 of 3: Power & Performance Thumbnail

FD-SOI – A Look at Recent Consortium Results
Part 2 of 3: Power & Performance

Posted by on February 23, 2012
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The results of the most recent SOI Consortium benchmarking study detail the interest of planar FD-SOI as early as the 28nm and 20nm technology nodes, in terms of performance, power and manufacturability. This 3-part blog series looks further at some of the implications. Fully depleted transistor architectures such as Planar FD-SOI, FinFETs (which is also …

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