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On the Road: Philips Semiconductor’s chips are going deep into cars from Ford, VW, DaimlerChrysler and more Serious Signal Processing in a Small Package: Mercury Computer Systems puts Freescale PowerPCs into a new generation of defense electronics Perfect Timing: OKI Electric’s chipset at the heart of Casio’s new atomic-solar watch How SOI makes a difference in RF & low-power ICs VLSI Research looks at SOI performance benefits over a wide range of applications News from SOI-related research programs A listing of upcoming events of interest to the SOI community Dr. Jerry G. Fossum’s EDS/J.J. Eber award, plus a new book on SOI from Dr. Makoto Yoshimi SOI-related news from around the industry A quick look at some recent accomplishments Tronic’s SOI-MEMS in oil exploration GaN on the move 45nm MuGFETs on SOI Soisic explains how to use SOI for low-power applications A selection of recently published papers of interest to the SOI and advanced substrates communities