Saw this at EETimes:
I really enjoyed the embedded video at the end of the article, direct link here, as it did a great job highlighting some basic xtor functions that are of interest to people.
Even if you don't care about FD-SOI, watching the video can be educational.
If the numbers are true and not just hype, and the ease-of-porting existing 28nm bulk designs to 28nm FD-SOI is true, then AMD could really see a boost in their 28nm products by migrating to FD-SOI at GloFo
ST plans for Dresden FDSOI production
ST claims that at 28-nm, its FDSOI process can provide 30 percent more performance than bulk 28-nm CMOS at the same power consumption, or, alternatively, can provide as much as a 50 percent saving in dynamic power consumption at the same performance. This is because FDSOI allows the use of voltages down to 0.6-V whereas bulk CMOS only goes down to about 0.9-V, said Joel Hartmann, executive vice president of front-end manufacturing and process R&D, for the digital sector at ST.
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I really enjoyed the embedded video at the end of the article, direct link here, as it did a great job highlighting some basic xtor functions that are of interest to people.
Even if you don't care about FD-SOI, watching the video can be educational.
If the numbers are true and not just hype, and the ease-of-porting existing 28nm bulk designs to 28nm FD-SOI is true, then AMD could really see a boost in their 28nm products by migrating to FD-SOI at GloFo