The Move to Fully-Depleted
• FD-SOI: ST/Chery interview; CMP's MPW runs; IBS on cost-savings
• FD & wafers: SEH & Soitec
• IBM's Fin-on-Oxide/FinFET
• SOI Consortium – FD-SOI & wafer capacity for mobile
FD-SOI Industrialization
• Technology: ST/Soitec white paper excerpts
• Apps – ST-Ericsson's NovaThor at 28nm (interview)
• 20nm & Beyond: Chenming Hu; Leti
• Wafers: Soitec's Roadmap
• SOI Consortium – benchmarking
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
As noted in ASN last year, the multi-core CPU in Nintendo’s new Wii U, which hit the shelves in November 2012, is fabbed by IBM on 45nm SOI.
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Nintendo’s next high-profile, high-volume CPU will leverage IBM’s 45nm SOI for performance, power and eDRAM. If you’ve followed the ASN “Buzz” in recent weeks, you’ve seen the news: the CPU for Nintendo’s upcoming (and very cool) Wii U is on 45nm SOI. IBM’s been fabbing chips for Nintendo for over a decade, and first moved …
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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 …
Continue ReadingLeave a CommentIBM has shipped its 50 millionth SOI-based processor for the Nintendo Wii Game System.
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The PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 CPU design teams all chose SOI. Here’s why. Design challenges (Read the Cell overview paper by Kahle et al on the IBM website) Achieve 100 times the PlayStation®2 performance. Joint developers IBM, Sony Group and Toshiba needed to co-optimize the chip area, design frequency, and product operating voltage, creating …
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• Nintendo has announced that the CPU of its new Wii® game console is based on a PowerPC (code-named “Broadway”) made with a 90 nm SOI CMOS process, jointly developed with and manufactured by IBM. The design was optimized with state-of-theart processing technologies that minimize power consumption and keep the console compact. The confirmation of …
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