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IBM’s SOI Power: Big Blue wrote the book on SOI – and keeps adding chapters

Chief scientist Ravi Arimilli holds a POWER 5 microprocessor module, which will power new IBM systems used by businesses, scientists and researchers tackling today's greatest computing challenges
(Courtesy of IBM)

Freescale’s Embedded High Performance: Freescale is moving chips based on SOI far into embedded markets – especially for communications infrastructure applications

MPC7447A Power PC
(Courtesy of Freescale Semiconductor)

AMD’s Momentum Building: SOI and the AMD64 architecture have proved to be a winning combination



Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processor (Courtesy of AMD)

How SOI and sSOI address the MPU clock speed challenge Smart Cut inventor Michel Bruel reflects on its impact for the industry SOI performance benefits


Applied Materials Group VP Randhir Thakur discusses the role of strain and SOI in making faster, cooler transistors
News from sSOI and III-V research programs
A listing of upcoming events of interest to the SOI community
EETimes Ace Awards cite AMD’s SOI innovation; and a new edition of J.P. Colinge’s SOI book
SOI-related news from around the industry
A quick look at some recent accomplishments

Leading SOI expert Sorin Cristoloveanu considers Smart Cut innovations and future potential

Yole Développement explains how
high-growth GaN apps could
get a boost

Luxera explains the role of SOI in the world’s first 10Gbit CMOS photonics platform

Strategic strategies for 45nm
Innovative Silicon explains how its Z-RAM technology + SOI save on final chip costs A selection of recently published papers of interest to the SOI and advanced substrates communities