AM happy with the info sifting work of today....the first time I have seen IN PRINT the highlighted part....I did expect it, but wanted something like this....
Its in an item that speaks more of TSMC...the worlds largest foundry...
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1331489
TSMC has taped out nearly 800 chips using flavors of its 28nm process. It has shipped 4.5 million 28nm wafers to date, clearly a big sweet spot it aims to defend.
Globalfoundries hopes to capture many of those customers starting this year with 22nm FD-SOI, a lower cost, lower power alternative with similar performance to TSMC’s 16nm FinFET node. TSMC claims its 22nm process provides an easier migration path from 28nm while FD-SOI requires redesigned intellectual property cores.
“Bulk semiconductor technology has been enhanced for 30 years and is used by Intel and Samsung,” the world’s two largest chip makers, said Mark Liu, TSMC’s co-chief executive in a brief interview after a keynote here. “FD-SOI will always be the technology of the future,” he quipped.
The news comes the same day NXP announced it will use FD-SOI for multiple future processors. So far, a total of just 10,000 FD-SOI wafers/month are shipping from all fabs including Globalfoundries and STMicroelectronics, said Sam Wang, a chip analyst for Gartner.
Globalfoundries may be slightly ahead in timing, ramping its 22nm FD-SOI process now with Sony image sensors in production. TSMC said its 22nm process will be in production next year, aimed at 5G RF and other mobile chips including image processors and components for wearables and the Internet of Things.
Note that also GLo FO is a good yr ahead of TSMC on this...?
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In a phone interview with EE Times, Geoff Lees, general manager and senior vice president of microcontrollers, security and connectivity, told us NXP has gained full confidence in the low power, high efficiency and scalability FD-SOI technology can deliver. With FD-SOI, Lees said, “We can now target a variety of family of processors from a single [FD-SOI] process node.”
The microprocessor product lines already transitioning to FD-SOI technology include NXP’s i.MX 7ULP family and the i.MX 8X family for automotive applications. Lees also noted that NXP is “seeing strong interest” in MCU-level products that are also based in this ultra-low power 28FD-SOI technology node. NXP, however, has not finalized launch timeframe with the lead customers or for broad-market introduction.
So no mention of GLo FO so its good for FD-SOI, but dont know how the whole puzzle goes together. Samsung FDX?
SO what is good..
It's NXP moving BIG time to a technology that many do not know how it fits in- now they know. ANd its good as it is the tech. that Glo Fo has worked so hard on.
Now the thought process for me has also shifted a little and this is just for FUN. FDX is doing good as NXP looks to IoT. ANyway I have added Samsung foundry to the list of the 2nd one?
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So in the HUGE pic THIS is the important thing to be so happy about...
PARIS – To do FD-SOI or not to do FD-SOI? NXP Semiconductors’ announcement this week at Embedded World in Nuremberg might finally put an end to this Shakespearean quandary, although there remain players in the chip industry unprepared to face the answer.
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he same day NXP announced it will use FD-SOI for multiple future processors.
So any question of this technology and will it be a success-GONE, gone, gone.
QUIKs adjacent possible- Using S Johnsons metaphor, the rooms that can be glimpsed through the door of the room eFPGA has allowed us to enter are grandin ways we can hardly imagine.,
