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SOI By Design

Posted on April 6, 2006
In ASN #4, Design & Manufacturing, In & Around Our Industry
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The widening availability of tools and services is good news for designers in the fabless/foundry arena considering the move to SOI. Leading foundries have made the investments in manufacturing on SOI. Those that have taken the final steps – finalizing electrical characterization, constructing SPICE models, integrating design tools and building libraries – are winning business. …

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The research group Current Analysis announced that in September 2005

Posted on December 7, 2005
In Industry Buzz
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• The research group Current Analysis announced that in September 2005, for the first time ever, AMD had topped Intel in U.S. retail desktop sales for an entire month. The driving force was HP’s Pavilion a1130n, offering AMD’s SOI-based Athlon™ 64 processor.

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By adding production output on a steady year-to-year basis

Posted on December 7, 2005
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• By adding production output on a steady year-to-year basis, AMD’s new 300mm Fab 36 in Dresden has the potential to ship as many as 100 million units in 2008, helping the company to meet growing demand for its SOI-based AMD64 processors. AMD expects the fab to be substantially converted to 65nm in by mid-2007.

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More and More Strain

Posted by Makoto YOSHIMI (Soitec) on December 7, 2005
In Advanced Substrate Corners, ASN #3, R&D/Labnews
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Dr. Yoshimi reviews some recent approaches to strained SOI implementation Implementing strain into the channel of MOSFETs has become mainstream technology for high-performance CMOS-FETs. Process induced uniaxial stress is being used today to boost carrier mobilities of sub-µm devices and thus improve IC performance.

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AMD’s Momentum Building

Posted on July 11, 2005
In ASN #2, End-User Apps, SOI In Action
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SOI-based products help win new customers. AMD, a long-time favorite of discerning PC buyers, is now the undisputed leader in 64-bit microprocessor performance for x86-based servers and worksta-tions. The growing success of AMD64 processors in enterprise-class computing can be attributed in part to the company’s move to SOI, which has enabled AMD to achieve industry-leading …

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EE Times Awards AMD, Cites SOI Innovation

Posted on July 11, 2005
In ASN #2, In & Around Our Industry, People
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Ruiz and AMD are among the first ACE winners. At the first Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards, EE Times celebrated the innovative spirit of Hector Ruiz and AMD, awarding them Executive of the Year and Large Company of the Year, respectively. The panel of 18 judges singled out the move to SOI as a …

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AMD is strengthening support

Posted on April 18, 2005
In Industry Buzz
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AMD is strengthening support for those system designers in the high-end, high-performance embedded market using the SOI-based Opteron™ and other processors, the company said at the last ESC.

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