Why SOI is the Future Technology of Semiconductor

By SemiWiki

January 15, 2014

No doubt that FDSOI generate high interest these days and I found a very interesting contribution from Zvi Or-Bach, President and CEO of MonolithIC 3D, Inc. Zvi has accepted to share his wrap-up from IEDM, in a blog for Semiwiki readers. If you remember the long discussion we had in Semiwiki about cost comparison, some comments were posted by people deploring that the source of the cost related data was unique. Thanks to Zvi, we have now multiple sources, from GlobalFoundries to IBS, addressing cost comparison at technology level, wafer level and finally 20nm die cost comparison at 100 mm2 and 200 mm2. This blog is excellent, and very complementary with the paper from IEDM discussed last week in Semiwiki. My comments in purple, the dark text from Zvi Or-Bach, the original blog is posted below (you also can find it here ):

Let’s start with the short answer - because:

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