Excellent news:  the first chips produced at GlobalFoundries’ “Fab 8″ in upstate New York are based on IBM’s latest, 32nm SOI chip technology. In a joint press release, the two companies announced that the chips will be used by customers in networking, gaming and graphics. While the new chips began initial production at IBM’s 300mm …

IBM‘s SOI-based BlueGene/Q takes the top 5 spots on the latest “Green500” list of energy-efficient supercomputers.

The new 32nm SOI Bulldozer-based AMD Opteron™ Processors will power the National Science Foundation’s Blue Waters project. Per the TOP500 Supercomputers list, more than two million AMD Opteron cores power many of the world’s fastest supercomputers across 14 countries.

Freescale is sampling the first PSC913x family of “base station-on-chip” products built on its innovative 45nm SOI-based QorIQ Qonverge multimode platform. As described in ASN (February 2011) when it launched in Barcelona this winter at the Mobile World Congress, these chips simultaneously support multiple air interfaces, providing operators and OEMs “future-proof”, highly integrated heterogeneous solutions …

Built on 45nm SOI CMOS by IBM researchers, a new generation of neurosynaptic computing chips is designed to emulate the brain’s abilities for perception, action and cognition. The next phase of the project has received $21 million in new funding from DARPA.

Overclocked to 8.429 GHz , the AMDFX (Bulldozer) CPU has entered the Guinness World Book of Records for “Highest Frequency of a Computer Processor”. On 32nm SOI from GlobalFoundries, the 8-core FX will launch in Q4 2011, targeting gamers.

Calling it “a monumental moment for the industry”, AMD has begun revenue shipments of its new  32nm-SOI  “Interlagos” processors, the first CPUs based on the “Bulldozer” architecture. Fabbed by GlobalFoundries, “Interlagos” is the codename for AMD’s 12- or 16-core 32nm SOI server processor based on the new “Bulldozer” processor core.  It carries the AMD Opteron™ …

Leveraging its Power Architecture, IBM will produce the CPUs for Nintendo‘s hot new Wii U on 45nm SOI.  IBM’s unique embedded DRAM on SOI (see ASN6) triples the amount of memory on a single chip, feeding the multi-core processor large chunks of data for a smooth and extreme entertainment experience. The Wii U hits store …

Freescale‘s 45nm SOI products continue making news: • The DSP lineup grows with the new MSC8157 and MSC8158, based on Freescale’s SC3850 core running at 1.2 Ghz — which recently earned the highest BDTIsimMark2000™ fixed-point performance score of any DSP architecture tested to date by independent signal-processing firm Berkley Design Technology, Inc (BDTI). • Yet …

With its 45nm SOI Cell processor, the new “slim” version of Sony’s PlayStation®3 sold 1 million units worldwide in the first 3 weeks following its September 1st launch.