As we said before, SOI is a very resourceful concept and can show amazing improvements in the right conditions. Every foundry needs a SHP (Super High Performance) manufacturing line and GlobalFoundries wants this line to be based on SOI. Compared to the bulk process, enhancing your producing line with SOI technology... |
3 May 2012
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Although the Taiwanese company is in the middle of a serious 28nm manufacturing capacity expansion, Morris Chang, chairman and chief executive of TSMC, gave a rather somber outlook for the overall semiconductor industry. He said that the expected growth would range between 2% and 3%. TSMC is investing heavily in cap... |
25 April 2012
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French company Soitec is a manufacturer and developer of Silicon On Insulator wafers that is headquartered in Bernin, France. SOI technology is well known to the computer enthusiasts all over the world, as this is the technology AMD used to manufacture its CPUs since the 2003 K8 architecture. The initiator of SOI was... |
24 April 2012
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The first publicity blow of showing a series 14nm silicon wafer belonged to IBM this year. SemiAccurate’s Charlie is reporting that, in the second week of March, the company has showed one of their first 14nm silicon wafers containing IC dies. The piece is certainly a test wafer and the chips on it have not b... |
26 March 2012
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Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Device is said to be planning to launch its first 'Fusion' chips, featuring and integrated GPU and CPU core on the same chip, which will be manufactured using a 32nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process technology. There have been many rumors about said chips, but it... |
16 October 2009
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On Monday, IBM announced that it was ready to start manufacturing processors under the 45nm silicon-on-insulator fabrication technology. The Big Blue developed the technology in partnership with AMD, which was said to start the shipments of its new 45nm SOI central processing unit within the following days. &ldq... |
11 November 2008
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It seems that The Foundry Company (the manufacturing firm AMD has recently announced to spin off its fabs into) will be able to move towards the 32-nanometer fabrication process while still using Silicon on insulator. Previous news on the Web stated that the company would drop SOI when moving to a smaller die, but it... |
16 October 2008
06:02 GMT |
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