They’ve got initial silicon of Dream Chips’ ADAS SoC fabbed in GlobalFoundries’ 22FDX (FD-SOI) technology, and it’s got record power efficiency (read the full press release here). The chip offers high performance image acquisition and processing capabilities and supports AI / Neural Network (NN) vision operation with a total of 1 TOPS at 500 MHz […]
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FD-SOI – Yes, New Products – and Great Press, too!
FD-SOI has hit Q1 with terrific momentum, both in terms of visibility into products and in press coverage. In case you missed them, here are three articles you should definitely read: FD-SOI Adoption Expands – Technology shifts direction after years of competing directly with CMOS at advanced nodes (by Ed Sperling at Semiconductor Engineering) 22FDX […]
RFSOI Short Course – Great Line-Up! (EuroSOI, March 2018)
RF-SOI is in every smart phone out there, and with 5G, there are lots more applications on the horizon. If you’d like to learn more about designing in RF-SOI, there’s a great short course coming up the day before and in conjunction with the EuroSOI-ULIS Conference in Granada, Spain. The title of this short course […]
FD-SOI in China – Foundries See Interest Mounting Fast
The foundries sent their top guns to the FD-SOI Forums organized by the SOI Consortium and its members in Shanghai and Nanjing. This is a quick recap of what they said. GF: Winning with SOI “With FD-SOI, we can deliver a level of integration never before possible,” said GlobalFoundries CEO Sanjay Jah in his Shanghai […]
GF Triples FDXcelerator Partner Base in 1st Year
As of September 2017, GlobalFoundries’ FDXcelerator program now counts 21 members. Its purpose is to extend the reach of the FD-SOI ecosystem, creating an open framework that allows these selected partners to integrate their products or services into a validated, plug-and-play catalog of design solutions. The program was first launched with seven partners in September […]
Tokyo SOI Workshop – Day 2 Recap (Part 2)
This is the second part of ASN coverage of Day 2 of the recent SOI Workshop in Tokyo, which was dedicated to the “Convergence of IoT, Automotive through Connectivity”. Many of the presentations are now posted and freely available – click here to see the full list. (In case you missed them, Day 1 and […]
GlobalFoundries, Verisilicon putting 1st complete IoT modem on single FD-SOI chip
Leveraging GF’s 22FDX® FD-SOI technology, GlobalFoundries and Verisilicon are developing IP to enable a complete cellular modem module on a single chip, including integrated baseband, power management, RF radio and front-end module combining both Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) and LTE-M capabilities. (Read the full press release here.) The new approach is expected to deliver significant improvements […]
$100M+ investment for FDX™ FD-SOI Chengdu design center of excellence
GlobalFoundries and the Chengdu municipality plan to build a world-class FD-SOI ecosystem including multiple design centers in Chengdu and university programs across China. They’ve announced an investment of more than $100 million, which is expected to attract leading semiconductor companies to Chengdu, making it a center of excellence for designing next-generation chips in mobile, IoT, […]
ARM Steps Up! And More Good News From Consortium’s FD-SOI Symposium in Silicon Valley
ARM is stepping up its effort to support the FD-SOI ecosystem. “Yes, we’re back,” confirmed Ron Moore, VP of ARM’s physical design group. This and much more good news came out of the recent FD-SOI Symposium organized in Silicon Valley by the SOI Consortium. The full-day Symposium played to a packed room, and was followed […]
New Advanced NV Memory IP for FDSOI – Attopsemi Joins GF’s FDXcelerator Program
There’s a new memory IP specialist on board for the FDSOI ecosystem. Attopsemi Technology has joined GlobalFoundries’ FDXcelerator™ Partner Program (read the press release here). Attopsemi is ensuring that its scalable, non-volatile one-time programmable (OTP) memory IP is compatible with GF’s 22FDX® technology. Their leading-edge I-fuse™ OTP IP is a fuse-based OTP technology that can […]