FD-SOI: The Right Choice


By Adele Hars Although Intel will do FinFETs at 22nm, FD-SOI remains the better alternative for most all the industry for low power and mobile apps. In the weeks and months to come, we'll continue to hear the SOI camp driving home key advantages of planar FD-SOI. 1. FD-SOI technology is the most cost-effective solution. The wafers are available from multiple sources. With volume purchasi... » read more

The SOI Papers at ISSCC 2011


By Adele Hars The International Solid-State Circuits Conference — better known as ISSCC — is of course where the big guns show us their big advances at the chip level. At the most recent conference, held a few weeks ago in San Francisco, advances that leveraged SOI were once again at the forefront. As always, performance gains generate plenty of buzz. But the SOI papers were also nota... » read more

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