retro: Intel to use SOI

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>From 2002:

AnandTech: Intel's 0.09-micron Process - More Details Emerge
"We've already explained how Silicon on Insulator works and both AMD
and Intel have committed to using the technology; AMD will be first to
market with SOI through their Hammer parts, while Intel will introduce
SOI with their 65nm process in 2005."
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=1677&p=3

That was then, and this is now.

Yousuf Khan

 

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YKhan wrote:
> >From 2002:
>
> AnandTech: Intel's 0.09-micron Process - More Details Emerge
> "We've already explained how Silicon on Insulator works and both AMD
> and Intel have committed to using the technology; AMD will be first to
> market with SOI through their Hammer parts, while Intel will introduce
> SOI with their 65nm process in 2005."
> http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=1677&p=3
>
> That was then, and this is now.
>
> Yousuf Khan

Yup. Intel really doesn't want to use SOI because it increases costs a
bit, and decreases yields.

 

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David Kanter wrote:
> Yup. Intel really doesn't want to use SOI because it increases costs a
> bit, and decreases yields.

Until they get some practice making processors with them, I guess.

Yousuf Khan

 

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On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 16:14:27 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote:

> David Kanter wrote:
>> Yup. Intel really doesn't want to use SOI because it increases costs a
>> bit, and decreases yields.
>
> Until they get some practice making processors with them, I guess.

No doubt that SOI is a PITA. It seems to be worthwile for those who
master it though. It wasn't long ago that copper was "impossible".

--
Keith