Huge Success of Semicon China: Opportunities in a Fast-Changing Landscape
Semicon China (Shanghai, 17-21 March 2015) was an awe-inspiring event. The sheer size and the energy were dazzling. But it was the investment plans prompted by the government’s injection of RMB 120...
View ArticleASN Celebrates a Decade of SOI News, Views and Commentary
April 2015 marks the 10-year anniversary of the first ever issue of Advanced Substrate News, aka ASN, covering news and views from the SOI ecosystem. Wow, were we precient. Consider some of the topics...
View ArticleFinFET or FD-SOI? Designers have a real choice, say experts
Is FD-SOI a better choice than FinFETs for my chip? In some high-profile forums, designers are now asking that question. And the result is coming back: almost certainly. Is there a place for FinFETs?...
View ArticleGlobalFoundries FD-SOI Webinar 24 June 2015, 10am PST: Be There!
It’s happening! GlobalFoundries is having an FD-SOI technical webinar on the 24th of June 2015. Don’t wait – sign up now – click here to get the registration document. Here’s the information we know so...
View ArticleYes! FD-SOI IP Ready for GF, Samsung; Ecosystem Now a Force to Be Reckoned With
The recent LetiDays FD-SOI workshop in Grenoble was the biggest show of force to date for the burgeoning FD-SOI ecosystem. In addition to a raft of excellent presentations, we learned two very big...
View ArticleIt’s Official! GlobalFoundries Launches 22FDX: 22nm FD-SOI in 4 flavors
With much fanfare, GlobalFoundries has officially announced its 22nm FD-SOI offering. Dubbed “22FDX™”, GF says the platform delivers FinFET-like performance and energy-efficiency at a cost comparable...
View ArticleGo! FD-SOI Wafer Suppliers Ready for High-Volume Ramp; Atomic-Scale...
With the great news about FD-SOI foundry offerings from Samsung, ST and now GlobalFoundries, plus the IP availability, the wafer suppliers have chimed in to remind the ecosystem they’re ready to ramp...
View ArticleFirst SOI wafers based on Smart Cut tech produced in China, target strong...
Shanghai-based Simgui has produced the company’s first 200mm SOI wafers based on Soitec‘s Smart CutTM manufacturing technology (read the press release here). Samples will be going to customers in the...
View ArticleGF’s 22nm FD-SOI Offering – Where to Get Lots of Excellent Info
A fast-growing body of information is now posted by GlobalFoundries on their new 22nm FD-SOI offering. After years of asking “where’s FD-SOI on the GF website??”, it’s (finally!) there, front and...
View ArticleRF-SOI vs. FD-SOI with RF – What’s the difference?
Is RF-SOI the same thing as RF on FD-SOI? No, it’s not. However, the runaway success of RF-SOI and the growing list of recent announcements related to FD-SOI with integrated RF has lead to some...
View ArticleFD-SOI Everywhere: GF & Samsung Videos, Press, Conferences and more – a quick...
Over the last few weeks there’s been another burst of activity in the FD-SOI arena. A new round of articles, videos and conferences are making FD-SOI the centerpieces. Here’s a quick round-up of things...
View ArticleRF-SOI Roars Back into the Headlines
Articles about chips built on RF-SOI technology are back in the headlines. What’s driving it? Data – lots of it, and at ever higher speeds, finding its way in and out of your mobile device. Bear in...
View ArticleGreat FD-SOI start for 2016: Samsung, GF, Renesas, NXP/Freescale, ST, Soitec
Just a month into 2016 and we already have a raft of FD-SOI news from Samsung, GlobalFoundries, NXP/Freescale, Renesas and more. And of course RF-SOI continues ever stronger. Here’s a quick update of...
View ArticleNow also on 300mm wafers and headed for 5G and IoT, RF-SOI’s going strong and...
Soitec, the industry’s leading supplier of SOI wafers recently announced it’s in high-volume manufacturing of a 300mm version of its wildly successful RFeSI line (see press release here). What’s it all...
View ArticleRF-SOI – Foundries Weigh In On New 300mm Wafers for 4G/LTE-A, 5G and IoT....
As you may have read in the first part of this series, Soitec (the industry’s leading supplier of SOI wafers) says its 200mm RF-SOI wafers have been used to produce over 20 billion chips, and the...
View ArticleSilicon Valley FD-SOI Symposium Promises Best Ecosystem Line-Up Ever: ARM,...
The SOI Consortium has lined up an excellent, comprehensive FD-SOI Symposium on April 13th in San Jose. They’ll be highlighting the tremendous progress of the FD-SOI ecosystem. Headliners include...
View ArticleSan Jose Symposium: It Was an Epic Day for FD-SOI – Now Dubbed “The Smart...
The #1 take-away message from the recent FD-SOI Symposium in San Jose is that “FD-SOI is the smart path to success”. With presentations echoing that theme by virtually all the major players – including...
View ArticleSan Jose Symposium – Part 2 of 2 in an Epic Day for FD-SOI – the “Disruption...
This is part 2 (of 2) of ASN’s coverage of the epic FD-SOI Symposium in San Jose. In part 1 we looked at the exciting developments happening at 28nm (if you missed it, click here to read it now). Here...
View ArticleImpressive! Soitec FD-SOI Press Conference in China = >150 Articles
FD-SOI makes sense for China. That was the key message SOI wafer leader Soitec made in a press conference on FD-SOI for a select group of journalists just before Semicon China this spring. News then...
View ArticleWhy Dan Hutcheson/VLSIresearch, Inc. (finally!) Likes FD-SOI
Dan Hutcheson, CEO of VLSIresearch, Inc. finally likes FD-SOI. That’s important, because he’s a really influential person in the chip world. Everybody who’s anybody in the chip biz pays attention to...
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