Applications
Current SOI products
- high speed processors
- IBM and Motorola : Power PC(tm)
- AMD : Athlon(tm) 64
- Graphic processor
- Sony/IBM/Toshiba : PlayStation3
- High speed serial data communication
- Mitsubishi Electric : 10Gbps SERDES
- Ultra-low power SoC
Future applications
Low-power digital applications are the next target as SOI CMOS is
becoming a mainstream technology and power dissipation is the main
concern.
SOI CMOS technologies are the most suitable technologies to produce RF
Systems on Chip, combining the low-power advantage for the digital part
and the high RF performance enabled by the full dielectric isolation of
the SOI substrate and the ability to use a high-resistivity substrate
(minimizing crosstalk and substrate losses).
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