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
• With momentum gathering for its SOI-based Opteron™, AMD is continuing its charge into supercomputers. It is extending its relationship with Cray and is teaming up with Sun at Tokyo Tech in the creation of Japan’s largest supercomputer. With 10,480 AMD Opteron™ processor cores, it is expected to be one of the five largest supercomputers …
Continue ReadingLeave a Comment• Starting Q3 06, IBM will start shipping a blade computing system based on the Cell Broadband Engine™ for graphic-intensive, numeric applications.
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IBM, Sony/SCEI and Toshiba are actively encouraging the proliferation of CELL applications The most celebrated of Cell applications, Sony’s PlayStation® 3, is due out next spring. In the meantime, the SOI-based Cell Broadband Engine (CBE) microprocessor, as it is officially known, is getting a big push from its joint developers: Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. …
Continue ReadingLeave a Comment• IBM has started shipping its new System z9 mainframe line, the first of a new generation of mainframes based on CMOS 10S-SOI technology.
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IBM is reaping the benefits of its long SOI history. In 1998, IBM announced that after years of research, it had “perfected” SOI, and would incorporate it into custom and standard products. “We believe SOI, with its high- performance and low-power characteristics, is a significant breakthrough in chip technology,” said Mike Attardo, General Manager, IBM …
Continue ReadingLeave a CommentNew SOI-based products target communications infrastructure. Consider the communications processor market, which Freescale dominates with its PowerQUICC architecture and 83% market share (Gartner Dataquest 2003). To date, Freescale has shipped nearly 200 million communications processors to more than 500 customers worldwide; many of these devices are now at 130nm process technology. As of this year, …
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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 …
Continue ReadingLeave a CommentAMD 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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