The addition of Applied Materials to the SOI Industry Consortium brings the total number of members to 20. The Consortium, formed in October, has the aim of generating greater awareness within the semiconductor industry as to the benefits of using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) for IC designs. 

Applied Materials joins the ranks of AMD, ARM, Cadence Design Systems, CEA-Leti, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Innovative Silicon, KLA-Tencor, Lam Research, NXP, Samsung, Semico, Soitec, SEH Europe, STMicroelectronics, Synopsys, TSMC and UMC.

“We are very pleased to welcome [Applied Materials] into this group of leading companies supporting the SOI ecosystem,” said André-Jacques Auberton-Hervé, Chairman of the SOI Industry Consortium Board. “In addition to the performance advantages of SOI as a semiconductor substrate technology, SOI promises better energy efficiency. Applied Materials’ entry into the SOI Consortium supports the momentum we are gaining across the entire spectrum of the semiconductor market.”

By Síle Mc Mahon