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The Powerlessness Of Fablessness-June 14, 2012 |
Interesting that Globalfoundries is to manufacture for all-comers, ICs made on the ST-developed FD-SOI process.
It seems that STMicroelectronics and ST-Ericsson have developed both 28nm and 20nm FD-SOI processes.
28nm FD-SOI is available in limited quantity production from the sub-20,000 wpm capacity at ST's fab at Crolles, but clearly a volume second source was needed if the technology was to enter their product line in a meaningful way.