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Andes, Rockchip to Join FD-SOI Club
PARIS, Nov. 02, 2017 – Design engineers living in Silicon Valley have long viewed fully-depleted silicon on insulator (FD-SOI) like the story of the boy who cried wolf. Its massive adoption is always around the corner but never really here at least not in the Valley.
In contrast to conventional bulk CMOS technology that chip giants like Intel continue to use for each process node, FD-SOI is something "new" and "foreign" for many U.S. designers. The absence of an FD-SOI ecosystem was always a reason for the naysayers to dismiss the technology. They would certainly never gamble on it.
Nonetheless, FD-SOI has champions like NXP Semiconductors and STMicroelectronics in Europe. Earlier this year, NXP revealed plans to go all in with FD-SOI, starting with its lowest power general-purpose applications processors, called i.MX 7ULP.
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