IBM discloses combo strained-silicon/SOI technology

[Adul]

http://www.siliconstrategies.com/story/OEG20021204S0041

IBM discloses combo strained-silicon/SOI technology

By Mark LaPedus
Semiconductor Business News
(12/04/02 07:30 p.m. EST)


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EAST FISHKILL, N.Y.--IBM Corp.'s Microelectronics Division next week is expected to announce a radical and combination strained-silicon/silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology for use in making high-performance chips at the 65-nm (0.065-micron) node.

IBM has already fabricated an SRAM, based on the ?strained-silicon-on-SOI? technology in the lab, but commercial chip products are not due out until the 65-nm node in the 2005 time frame, according to officials from the East Fishkill-based organization.

hehe i like this part


The company still claims it is still ahead of Intel in the process technology race. ?Intel is developing strained-silicon on bulk at 90-nm,? Lee said. ?We don't see the need to have strained-silicon at 90-nm, because SOI intrinsically has better performance [than strained-silicon at 90-nm],? he said.

 

[Adul]

come on guys this is cool stuff here

 

[socketman]

Its cool in a "geeky" sense. But since process technology usually only affects things several years down the road, its not terribly important right now. Besides, we have have yet to see what SOI does for mainstream products. (ala Hammer).

 

[mcveigh]

Originally posted by: Adul
come on guys this is cool stuff here

yes it is.


oh yeah and chicks dig it 😉

 

[Wingznut]

Originally posted by: socketman
Its cool in a "geeky" sense. But since process technology usually only affects things several years down the road, its not terribly important right now. Besides, we have have yet to see what SOI does for mainstream products. (ala Hammer).

Well, not "several" years... Both SOI and SS should be available in desktops in 2003. (Obviously not combined, though.)

Originally posted by: siliconstrategies.com
?We don't see the need to have strained-silicon at 90-nm, because SOI intrinsically has better performance [than strained-silicon at 90-nm],? he said.

I can't really say if SOI is "intrinsically better" than SS, but I can say that it definitely has more drawbacks than SS. (i.e. Increased wafer cost, native defects, etc...)

 

[JellyBaby]

Sounds fabulous.