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As you look through the pages of this
and other editions of Advanced Substrate
News, one thing becomes very clear: the
companies that are using SOI are getting
more than their money’s worth. IBM, AMD,
Freescale, Philips, Sony, Toshiba, Honeywell,
Via, Atmel and more – they use SOI
because it’s good for the bottom line.
What did they know that others didn’t?
The new Semico study spells it out: when
you’re considering a move to SOI, you’ve
got to look at the big picture. If you only
look at the impact of the wafer cost on
wafer manufacturing, you’re missing the
saving you’ll make as you move further
along the manufacturing process.
Even if you didn’t bother to optimize
your SOI design at all, when you look
at your ready-to-ship chip, SOI COO
only accounts for about 5% of total
manufacturing cost, and less than 1% of
the ASP. But if you use any of the new
design tools out there, or rely on the
expertise of leading foundries, you can
save substantially on your costs.
The companies using SOI are making
beautiful, powerful, efficient and worldchanging
chips. In turn, these chips
provide end-product designers with
terrific tools in the race for “smaller,
faster, cheaper, better.” The bottom
line is that your return-on-investment
– your ROI – looks even better when
you start with SOI.
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