AppSec Risk: The Dangers And How to Manage Them

By Synopsys - 01 Sep, 2021 - Comments: 0

As software continues to deliver more features than ever before, its quality and security are increasingly crucial to the success of every organization. Building secure software makes business sense for a variety of reasons, including diminishing financial liability and improving competitive advantage. Keeping track of every software vulnerability, however, is taxing and time-consuming—and... » read more

BLE For The IoT

By Ernest Worthman - 05 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) is one of the emerging disruptive technologies for the IoT. Also referred to as Bluetooth low-power and Bluetooth smart, as the Bluetooth SIG is calling it, this technology will enable the next level of IoT vertical devices, such as medical devices, home automation, retail, wearables, and much more. For consumers, it comes down to the Internet of Your Things (Io... » read more

Over 65% Smartphone RF Switches SOI, Says Yole; Power Amps Next

By Various Writers - 14 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Adele Hars The industry research firm Yole Développement says that more than 65 percent of substrates used in fabricating switches for handsets are SOI-based. This is a high-growth part of the market, putting up double-digit increases. Like a standard SOI wafer, an RF SOI substrate has an active (“top”) layer on which CMOS transistors are built, with an isolating (“BOx”) ... » read more

GF’S Two Flavors Of FD-SOI

By Various Writers - 17 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

Posted by Adele Hars, Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Substrate News ~ ~ Hearing the news that GlobalFoundries would be offering two flavors of FD-SOI, ASN asked the company to explain the strategy further. Here are the responses provided by Subi Kengeri, Vice President of Advanced Technology Architecture. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="110"] Subi Kengeri, VP Advanced T... » read more

Over 50% Of Smart Phones And Tablets Leverage SOI

By Various Writers - 18 Mar, 2013 - Comments: 0

Posted by Adele Hars, Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Substrate News ~ ~ In a recent press release, the SOI wafer leader Soitec said that chips built on its SOI wafers were found in over half of the smartphones and tablets in the market worldwide. 50%? That’s a lot! How do they figure that? The answer: RF. [caption id="attachment_809" align="alignleft" width="549" caption="As seen here... » read more

ST-Ericsson 28nm FD-SOI/ARM Chip Hits 2.8GHz at CES

By Various Writers - 22 Jan, 2013 - Comments: 0

Posted by Adele Hars, Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Substrate News ~ ~ What a great start to 2013: at CES in Las Vegas, ST-Ericsson announced the NovaThor™ L8580 ModAp, “the world’s fastest and lowest-power integrated LTE smartphone platform.” This is the one that’s on STMicroelectronics’ 28nm FD-SOI, with sampling set for Q1 2013. And it’s a game changer – for users, fo... » read more

ST’s FD-SOI Tech Available to All Through GF

By Various Writers - 08 Oct, 2012 - Comments: 0

Posted by Adele Hars, Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Substrate News ~ ~ In the spring of 2012, STMicroelectronics announced the company would be manufacturing ST-Ericsson’s next-generation (and very successful) NovaThor ARM-based smartphone/tablet processors using 28nm FD-SOI process technology. With first samples coming out this fall, ASN talks to Jean-Marc Chery, Executive Vice Pres... » read more

What’s ST’s FD-SOI Technology All About?

By Various Writers - 22 Jun, 2012 - Comments: 0

As I blogged here on SemiMD last week, STMicroelectronics has announced that to supplement in-house production at their fab in Crolles, the company has tapped GlobalFoundries for high-volume production of 28nm then 20nm FD-SOI mobile devices. ST will also open access to its FD-SOI technology to GlobalFoundries’ other customers. High-volume manufacturing will kick off with ST-Ericsson’s ... » read more

ST-Ericsson NovaThor This Year, 28nm FDSOI, Soitec Wafers

By Various Writers - 14 Mar, 2012 - Comments: 0

Big and official FD-SOI news: Soitec has announced that the company is supplying the FD-SOI wafers for ST-Ericsson’s next-generation of NovaThor 8540 smartphone/tablet processors. Starting at the 28nm node, this marks the industry’s first industrialization of the new planar, fully-depleted technology on ultra-thin SOI wafers. Soitec has just issued an official press release, but ST-Eri... » read more

FD-SOI Workshop ppts – STM’s 1st 28nm FD-SOI product line

By Various Writers - 12 Mar, 2012 - Comments: 0

The SOI Consortium’s 6th FD-SOI workshop, held just after ISSCC, yielded some exciting news. Most of the presentations are freely available for downloading from the SOI Consortium website. Here are the highlights. STMicroelectronics In a terrific presentation by Giorgio Cesana, Marketing Director at STMicroelectronics, he revealed that the company would be releasing a major product line b... » read more

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