Here’s why ARM, the industry’s leading provider of intellectual property for processor, peripheral and SoC design, sees SOI technology as a powerful tool in the quest for optimized performance and power consumption. Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) technology offers designers an opportunity for product differentiation and value creation. Adopting well-designed SOI physical IP products gives ASIC designers additional …

The CEO and co-founder of Soitec shares his vision of how partnership speeds the proliferation of SOI and other engineered substrates. The advanced substrate community has made terrific strides in deploying SOI and reaping the benefits thereof. The current model of ad hoc collaboration – supplier-to-client, partner-to-partner, manufacturer-to-customer – has been instrumental in moving SOI …

Market analysts at Yole look at the rapid growth of thick film SOI for MEMS applications. While thin-film SOI applications (especially for microprocessors) dominate SOI markets, thick-film SOI applications account for more than 20% of the total SOI production. SOI is considered “thick” when the thickness of the top single-crystal silicon layer is 1µm or …

A new Semico Research study estimates the impact of SOI on the bottom line. As semiconductor process technologies move down the nanometer scale from 90nm to 65nm and smaller, the benefits of silicon-oninsulator (SOI) wafers in reducing junction capacitance, improving the short-channel effect, reducing leakage and decreasing soft error rates become more and more attractive. …

Following a long and distinguished career at Sony and Hitachi, an industry visionary reflects on what’s to come   For about the past four decades, chip progress was achieved by “shrinking”. Things were simple because three factors – speed, power and density – were improved simultaneously. In the case of advanced nano devices, leakage current, …

The inventor of Smart Cut technology, Dr. Bruel reflects on its impact for the industry. I knew a time when it was very common to encounter people who didn’t believe in the future of SOI technology, when people thought that only bulk silicon technologies would solve microelectronics’ new challenges.

Although the basic principles of Silicon-On- Insulator (SOI) technology are simple, the ramifications are far reaching. The use of SOI reduces parasitic capacitance around embedded circuit elements, reduces leakage currents, and enhances isolation between circuit elements. These improvements affect switching speed, threshold voltage, power consumption, noise, and the minimum space needed between components embedded in …