SOI Industry Consortium Formed to Accelerate SOI Innovation

Oct 10, 2007 17:56 Nikkei Electronics Asia

19 companies within the electronics industry have announced the launching of the SOI Industry Consortium, aimed at accelerating silicon-on-insulator (SOI) innovation into markets by promoting the benefits of SOI technology and reducing the barriers to adoption.

Performance and power consumption are now of primary concern throughout the electronics industry. While early adopters have demonstrated that SOI is a powerful solution in addressing these concerns, they did so largely on their own. The next wave of adopters needs a proven and complete array of readily-accessible SOI design platforms and IP to ensure transparent design platforms and cost-effective manufacturing. The SOI Consortium aims to bridge the gaps -- both real and perceived -- by reducing adoption costs, making SOI best practices available and facilitating design examples across the value chain.

The founding membership roster includes AMD, ARM, Cadence Design Systems, CEA-Leti, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Innovative Silicon, KLA-Tencor, Lam Research, NXP, Samsung, Semico, Soitec, SEH Europe, STMicroelectronics, Synopsys, TSMC and UMC.

The consortium's initial focus is on sharing best practices already established by early adopters and facilitating new design proof points demonstrating SOI's performance, power and area advantages.

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