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
SOI & The Lighting Revolution; Wafers for FD-SOI
• Soitec's wafers for FD-SOI
• Special supplement: SOI Industry Consortium
• Lighting apps: NXP+SOI=better CFLs
• ARM & SPICE, Industry Buzz and more
Construction on GlobalFoundries’ Fab 2 in Saratoga County, New York, gets underway this summer, with full-scale manufacturing slated for 2012.
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GlobalFoundries Open for Business GlobalFoundries, a joint venture between AMD and the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) has been officially launched. In addition to manufacturing chips for AMD, the new foundry opens the door for a wide range of chip companies to gain early access to volume chip production using leading-edge technologies. The Dresden cluster, …
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The world’s first pure-play foundry to offer SOI has received “Semiconductor International” magazine’s top honor. Semiconductor International (SI) magazine has honored Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing’s Fab 7 with the “Top Fab” award for 2006. With Fab 7, Chartered became the first pure-play foundry to expand into SOI when it began producing SOI-based chips in high-volume for …
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Chartered is the industry’s first pure-play foundry to expand into high-volume SOI production. High-volume SOI at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing is a great success. January 2007 marks the three-year anniversary of the initial announcement that we would manufacture 90nm SOI products for IBM in volume-driven, high-performance solutions. Since we ramped production in mid-2005, we have shipped …
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Microsoft’s custom PowerPC chip by IBM is based on SOI Microsoft’s Xbox 360, which is expected to fly out of the stores this holiday season, has some very impressive figures to cite. The three-core PowerPC-based CPU, custom-made for Microsoft by IBM, boasts one teraflop of floating-point performance.
Continue ReadingLeave a Comment• 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.
Continue ReadingLeave a CommentPilot production of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing’s first 300-mm facility includes the 90nm SOI process tuned to IBM’s high-performance product needs.
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