GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: CEA, Soitec, GlobalFoundries and STMicroelectronics have introduced a brand new collaboration in which they intend to collectively outline the industry’s subsequent generation roadmap for FD-SOI (fully depleted silicon-on-insulator) technology.
Semiconductors and FD-SOI innovation are of strategic worth to France and the EU as well as to to customers globally.
FD-SOI offers substantial advantages for designers and buyer systems collectively with decrease energy consumption as well as to simpler integration of additional options such as connectivity and security, a key feature for automotive, IoT and mobile applications.
“CEA has been, for over 20 years, a pioneer of the FD-SOI technology, inside the Grenoble-Crolles ecosystem. CEA has additionally a lengthy historical past of deep R&D cooperation with each STMicroelectronics, Soitec and GlobalFoundries and has been very active inside the initiatives led by the European Commission and Member States aiming to arrange a full ecosystem for FD-SOI going from materials suppliers, design houses, EDA instruments providers, fabless companies and finish users,” said François Jacq, CEA Chairman.
“CEA is extremely motivated by this chance to put together a brand new generation of FD-SOI technology offering higher performance, decrease energy consumption and decrease prices to address the wants of main European markets such as automotive, IoT, 5G/6G and manufacturing 4.0.”
“FD-SOI is a key technology for the dynamic markets we address and an important growth driver for our industry and our customers,” said Paul Boudre, CEO of Soitec.
“The FD-SOI alliance that we’re happy to announce today is constructed on Soitec’s capability to drive innovation in substrates and assist launch a brand new generation of semiconductors serving a big number of markets collectively with connectivity, automotive, Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence. Together with our companions and allies, we wish to confirm our technological management and proceed to drive innovation in global microelectronics. This collaboration additionally illustrates how closely we work with our customers to advance technologies, address their future needs, and accompany them to go to market at a excessive pace.”
“We look ahead to deepening our partnership with the main French and European stakeholders throughout the full semiconductor worth chain and in particular to construct on our extremely differentiated FDSOI-based options collectively to address the rapid growth of chips requiring low power, connectivity, and safety in automotive, IoT and smart mobile devices,” said Tom Caulfield, CEO of GlobalFoundries.
“The dynamic European semiconductor ecosystem is important to us and we will proceed to make investments to develop our presence inside the EU as a half of our global growth strategy.”
“ST was an early innovator in FD-SOI and has been in manufacturing for a number of years, with each customized and standard superior merchandise for a broad vary of end-markets. In particular, the technology helps the automotive industry because it transitions to full digitalization and software-defined architectures along with the event of driverless technologies,” said Jean-Marc Chery, President and CEO of STMicroelectronics.
“We look ahead to working with different main experts on the subsequent generations of FD-SOI that will allow our customers to beat the challenges they face as they transition to full digitalization and support the decarbonization of the economy”.
The CEA is a key participant in research, development and innovation in 4 main areas: energy transition, digital transition, technology for the medicine of the future and protection and security. www.cea.fr
Soitec (Euronext, Tech forty Paris) is a world chief inside the manufacture of innovative semiconductor materials. The firm makes use of its distinctive applied sciences to serve the electronics markets. www.soitec.com
GlobalFoundries is one of many world’s main semiconductor manufacturers. GF is redefining innovation and semiconductor manufacturing by developing and delivering feature-rich course of technology options that present management efficiency in pervasive excessive growth markets.