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Complete ASN (#19) regrouping all recent FD-SOI articles available...
In case you missed any of the articles on FD-SOI Industrialization...
Advanced Substrate News | ASN #19 – FD-SOI Industrialization (ST, ST-Ericsson, Soitec, Leti, UC Berkeley) -
NovaThor SmartPhone Chip on 28nm FD-SOI: ST-Ericsson Blogger Tells... advancedsubstratenews.com
Posted by Adele HARS on May 30, 2012 Tagged with ST-Ericsson To...
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Adele
Did you see that ST-E posted part 2 of 28nm FD-SOI (for new NovaThor/smartphone chip) blog? Explains speed v. leakage; power efficiency...
ST Ericsson's putting the next-gen NovaThor on 28nm FD-SOI (rather than waiting for FinFETs), sampling this summer. This is the second ...
FD-SOI: A process booster for ST-Ericsson’s next generation NovaThor – Part 2 | mobile technology, mobile architecture | ST-Ericsson Technology Blog blog.stericsson.com
By Valery Gravoulet posted May 7 2012. In the last post we explored the performance vs voltage benefits of FD-SOI. In this post we look at the other two key benefits – competitive speed/leakage trade-offs, and optimized power efficiency.
Adele
Can wafers solve both 28/22nm planar scaling and 14nm FinFET manufacturing challenges? Soitec says yes.
Soitec has been making the rounds with a roadmap showing how the company's wafers for FD (fully depleted) tech can help lower both costs ...
Soitec: Wafer Roadmap for Fully Depleted Planar and 3D/FinFET | Advanced Substrate News advancedsubstratenews.com
Posted by Steve LONGORIA on April 20, 2012. Soitec wafers for FD bridge the planar gap between 28nm and 14nm, then accelerate and simplify the move to 3D architectures.
Adele
What's it really like porting from bulk to FD-SOI? ST-Ericsson explains.
In an industry first, ST-Ericsson's taping out smartphone/tablet products in Q3 2012, with production start anticipated in 2013. In this ...
Interview With ST-Ericsson’s Chief Chip Architect: SOCs on 28nm FD-SOI – When, Why and How advancedsubstratenews.com
Louis Tannyeres talks with ASN about the about the move to 28nm FD-SOI for smartphones and tablet SOCs.
Adele
STMicro explains FD-SOI 28nm SOC choice
This is a major white paper -- but it's both in-depth and accessible. They detail how & why FD-SOI makes sense starting with 28nm for ...
By P. Flatresse (Circuit Design and Architecture) & G. Cesana (Technology Mktg) STMicro, w/X. Cauchy (Digital Apps), Soitec. FDSOI circuit-level benchmark results & important design aspects for mobile and consumer multimedia SOCs starting at the 28nm node and scalable down to 14nm.
Soitec and Sumitomo Electric are launching pilot production of 4" and 6" GaN wafers for the LED and power markets advancedsubstratenews.com
Posted on January 26, 2012 Tagged with led, Soitec, Sumitomo Electric World-leading advanced substrate maker Soitec and compound materials leader Sumitomo Electric are launching pilot production of 4" and 6" GaN wafers for the...
Adele
Perspective on IBM's 32nm SOI as GloFo Fab 8's 1st silicon
If you're wondering why the 1st silicon out of GlobalFoundries' new Fab 8 in NY was based on IBM's 32nm SOI, here's some insight into ...
GF’s NY Fab 8 Debuts with IBM’s 32nm SOI advancedsubstratenews.com
Posted by Adele HARS on January 16, 2012 Excellent news: the first chips produced at GlobalFoundries' "Fab 8″ in upstate New York are based on IBM's latest 32nm SOI...
Adele
ASN's 2012 Calendar for the greater SOI community posted
For those working in, on or around SOI-based chips & technologies, I've just posted a calendar of events (conferences & expos) for the ...
Advanced Substrate News | Calendar advancedsubstratenews.com
The Worldwide 2012 ASN/SOI Calendar -- quick links with dates & locations for leading conferences & expos of interest to the greater SOI & advanced substrates community.
Adele
EuroSOI coming up this month
Just a reminder that the EuroSOI conference is 23-25 Jan on the Cote d'Azur (near Montpellier) in France. This is always an interesting ...
EUROSOI - 2012 montpellier2012.eurosoi.org
Tom
Concentration acceleration: Soitec’s San Diego factory deal is latest in flurry of CPV advances | PV-Tech pv-tech.org
Among the sometimes troubling and downright negative news in the solar space of late, the narrative of one company and the emerging sector it represents has been moving in a decidedly more upward and positive arc. Soitec, the French firm which entered the concentrating photovoltaics area via its acquisition of Concentrix two years ago, has been on a roll for most of 2011, with its momentum accele
Adele
Will 450mm SOI wafers for fully-depleted SOI (FD-SOI) be ready in time?
Seeing the bevvy of articles recently on what the industry needs to do to get ready for the 14nm node (coming faster than you think...), ...
Ultra-thin wafers for 450mm FD-SOI on schedule advancedsubstratenews.com
Engineered substrates like SOI wafers need to be ready years in advance of any major shift in technology – and before much of the rest of the materials and equipment. The fabs and foundries as well as the entire design chain –...
Adrian
SOI wafer comprising 220 nm thick silicon layer on 2 μm of silica
Hello,
My name is Adrian Zakrzewski and I am PhD student at Wroclaw University of Technology. My PhD research are connected with ...
Adele
Very interesting article on AMD/GF SOI plans from Xbits Labs
The article notes, "Even though both AMD and Globalfoundries nowadays praise 28nm HKMG bulk process technology, there is a whole lot of ...
Globalfoundries Discloses Peculiarities of AMD's Trinity: Piledriver x86 Cores, Radeon HD 7000 Graphics. xbitlabs.com
Globalfoundries Talks Next-Gen 32nm SOI AMD Fusion...
Adele
Many more MEMS apps coming out on SOI
Yole analyst Eric Mounier sees SOI MEMS growing at a CAGR (2011-2015) of 15.6%, compared to 8.1% for bulk silicon-based solutions. Here ...
MEMS on SOI – Growing Fast and Faster advancedsubstratenews.com
Adele
SiP = sensor + ASIC on SOI -- NXP game-changer for automotive sensors?
In this short interview, an NXP manager explains the advantages they saw of putting this MR sensor solution on SOI -- both for their own ...
Interview: How NXP’s SOI Technology Enables Major Advance in Automotive Position Sensors | Advanced Substrate News advancedsubstratenews.com
Guenter Reiniger, Marketing Manager for NXP’s Automotive Sensors, explains how SOI helps eliminate the need for external components in a new magnetic sensor family.
