GUEST SPOT
Can You Afford Not to Use SOI?
A new Semico Research study estimates the impact of SOI on the bottom line.
SPECIAL FEATURE

SOI By Design: Foundry and IP partners now have the tools, rules and expertise designers need to move to SOI.

Expert Advice: Michael Gruver of IBM's E&TS gives his perspective on foundry customers and custom SOI design.

Fabless Via Technologies leverages IBM's 90nm SOI for ultra-low voltage processors.
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More Power to You. Philips is building more and more high voltage/power products on SOI – because it's cost-effective.

Philips’ SOI is found throughout Mercedes-Benz, as the basis for in-vehicle networking chips and in the power ICs in the Xenon headlight bulbs, helping them consume half the power, last 7x as long and shine 3x brighter than halogen. (Courtesy of Philips Semiconductors.)
E2E
 
Why UV light is the key to benchmarking SOI vs. bulk
defectivity levels.

By Christophe Maleville
Process Engineering Manager
Soitec
INDUSTRY BUZZ
SOI and other advanced substrate-related news from around the industry – Hitachi's tiny mu-chip, AMD & supercomputing, Sony/IBM/Toshiba, Analog Devices and more.
PEOPLE
 
SOI garners industry honors for Soitec, IBM and more.

Soitec President and Co-Founder André-Jacques
Auberton- Hervé (center) receiving the 2006 Boldness and Creativity Award from French President Jacques Chirac (right).
(Courtesy of and © Service photographique de la Présidence de la République – A. Roiné – All rights reserved.)
SHOPTALK
 

Epitaxy developments that could enable a GeOI future.

By Dr. Chris Werkhoven
VP Strategic Marketing
ASM America

ON THE CIRCUIT

Innovative Silicon VP Jeff Lewis discusses cost saving Z-RAM.

Z-RAM® from Innovative Silicon:
5x denser than SRAM and 2x denser than eDRAM
LAB NEWS
EuroSOI gears up and Medea+ sSOI partners announced.
R&D OUTLOOK
Strained Silicon on Insulator: the Wafer Solution for Low-Power and High-Performance Devices.

By Dr. Carlos Mazuré
Chief Technical Officer
Soitec

MEMS

Straight to the Heart. Tronics' SOI-based accelerometer makes a big difference in ELA-Medical's pacemakers.

TRONICS customdesigned an SOI-based accelerometer
for ELA Medical’s pacemakers.
(Courtesy of TRONICS Microsystems and ELA Medical.)
III-V CORNER
The power devices market may be small, but Yole's Dr. Philippe Roussel explains why it's an innovation hotbed.
DESIGNER'S CORNER
SOI IP vendor Soisic looks at SOI savings. RF specialist Cissoid describes new options in wireless SOI SoCs.
PAPERLINKS
Pertinent reading from IBM, Intel, U. Wisconsin, Soitec and more.