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CELLs Multiply
IBM, Sony/SCEI and Toshiba are actively encouraging the proliferation of CELL applications

IBM Analysis Engineer Tami Vogel holds a prototype of the new Cell microprocessor.
(Courtesy of IBM)

SOI in Japan: Full Circle
SOI got its start in Japan. Now
in a raft of new applications, its home again

Video eyewear. Scalar Corporation (Tokyo) has integrated Kopin's SOI-based CyberDisplay® 180K color-filter microdisplay into
Scalar's Teleglass, the world's smallest video eyewear for video-on-the-go applications.

Xbox® 360 Debuts New Gaming Generation
Microsoft’s custom PowerPC chip by IBM is based on SOI


The CPU of Microsoft’s Xbox® 360 is an IBM-customized 90-nm SOI PowerPC.
(Courtesy of Microsoft)

Fab Floor Tip: A quick guide
to successful rapid thermal
processing of SOI wafers
Following a long and distinguished career at Sony and Hitachi, industry visionary Tsugio Makimoto reflects on what’s to come


KLA-Tencor’s David Bloom describes solutions for high throughput inspection of multiple SOI wafers
NIST Nanowire Transistors on SOI: New design simplifies processing and on/off switching

MIRAI-ASET Working on SGOI and GeOI: 3.1 times greater hole-mobility observed in ultra-thin GeOI


Soitec and SEZ team up to perfect sSOI
wet-etch processes
Soisic debuts the first ASIC design kit for 90nm SOI
SOI-related news from around the industry
New FD-SOI textbook by 31 experts from
Japan, plus Soitec president joins SEMI board



Dr. Mizuno of Kanagawa University, Japan, describes work on ballistic SOI-MOSFETs

Picogiga CEO describes new Smart Cut™ enabled GaN RF substrate options
Seiko Instruments Inc.’s new chip can leverage energy sources such as personal body heat and natural
illumination


Dr. Yoshimi of Soitec Asia reviews some recent approaches to sSOI
Dr. Douseki from NTT describes the circuit technology behind a short-range wireless system powered by the heat of a hand An update on papers from the last IEEE/SOI Conference and the GAAS® symposium