FD-SOI : SMIC or... who else?
In fact, as of today, nobody can refer to an official statement made by any STM executive about name of the foundry able to process FD-SOI wafers in 28nm. We just know that the agreement is about to (or has been) signed… But we may speculate, and try to use our rational thinking. For example, the Semiwiki readers had the opportunity to read this article, back in November 2013: “IP-SoC 2013 Top Class Presentations”. As I am living in France, going to Grenoble is much easy for me than for Paul or Dan, and I have presented to IP-SoC numerous times since 2007.
In this article, I have expressed my questioning about SMIC presentation, as this was not really a Foundry sales pitch but rather a corporate message from China Inc. I have no issue with it, I was just surprised. I must say today that I better understand why the presentation from SMIC was organized this way, if we assume that SMIC executives came to Grenoble not only to present to a couple of hundreds European designers… but also to discuss business with their STMicroelectronics counterpart. Let me add that it was the first time ever that SMIC went to IP-SoC to present…
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