by david manners - Electronic weekly, Jul. 22, 2015 –
FD-SOI is becoming an interesting technology for the mobile SoC market, reckons Arm.
I think it’s very interesting," Arm evp Pete Hutton told EW, "if you look at low-power/low-cost a lot of people are sticking at 28nm and not moving to 16nm finfet because it’s much more expensive. 22nm FD-SOI gets you the performance and it’s not much more expensive than 28nm."
A couple of weeks back GloFo went big on FD-SOI announcing a 22nm process offering 70% power reduction over 28nm planar, while delivering finfet equivalent performance with a 50% reduction in masking layers