Has the Electronics Industry matured to such an extent that we are frightened of new technologies? What happened to the pioneering spirit that led us to accept Moore's Law as a given truth that would stand forever?
Next month I will be an SOI panellist at the International Conference on Memory Technology and Design ICMTD'07 (May7-10th 2007, Giens, South of France).
A short piece of promo material for the panel references a joke (albeit an in-joke) that is circulating amongst suppliers of embedded memories:
"Now that embedded memory in many System-on-Chip ICs takes up far more than 50% of the die area, surely it would be appropriate to refer to these chips as memory devices with embedded logic .............."
SOI - and I will say this only once - is Silicon on Insulator. This blog is unashamedly pro-SOI. But it is not a blinkered, unquestioning or even bigoted view: there are very good reasons why companies who are household names - IBM, AMD, Sony, Microsoft, OKI etc etc - have chosen SOI as the technology platform for their latest devices - and for the same reasons, you will too.
Here's why.
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