May 14, 2007

Your kids love it, and so should you

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?

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April 17, 2007

Embedded Memory, or Embedded Logic?

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 .............."

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Your Next Design will be on SOI

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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