SOITEC : SOITEC ANNOUNCES WIDESPREAD ADOPTION OF ITS eSI(TM) SUBSTRATES BY LEADING RF SEMICONDUCTOR COMPANIES
July 08 2014 - 1:55PM
(SEMICON West 2014) -- Soitec (Euronext), a
world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary
semiconductor materials for the electronics and energy industries,
has reached an early milestone in the fast-paced and widespread
adoption of its proprietary Enhanced Signal Integrity(TM) (eSI)
substrates. Soitec eSI substrates are the substrate of choice for
manufacturing cost-effective and high-performance radio-frequency
(RF) devices providing a power boost for 4G /LTE applications.
Since Soitec began production of its eSI product, Soitec estimates
that it has shipped enough of these leading-edge substrates to
fabricate more than 1.4 billion RF front-end semiconductor devices.
As the first-to-market supplier of these wafers, Soitec is the
driving force in the RF semiconductor materials market.
As eSI offers the best cost performance trade-off,, Soitec is
seeing very strong and growing market demand from most of the
leading RF foundries. These customers are already shipping
wireless-communication ICs built on eSI substrates. As a result,
Soitec is now shipping more eSI products than high-resistivity
silicon-on-insulator (HR-SOI) wafers, which are also used in
fabricating RF devices.
"In a very short time, our eSI product has been widely adopted
by most of the leading foundries considering it to be the substrate
of choice for their products," said Bernard Aspar, senior vice
president and general manager of Soitec's Communication &
Power Business Unit. "This shows that we have demonstrated our
SOI innovation leadership and our ability to move quickly to high
volume production. In parallel, we are already working on next
generation products to address future LTE Advanced challenges."
Soitec's eSI substrates: Soitec's innovative
eSI products, based on Smart Cut(TM) technology, are the first
'trap-rich' type of material in full production. These substrates,
on which devices are manufactured, have a significant impact on the
final devices' performance. Soitec's eSI substrates are designed by
introducing an innovative material (a trap-rich layer) between the
high-resistivity handle wafer and the buried oxide. This layer
limits the parasitic surface conduction present in standard
high-resistivity silicon-on-insulator (HR-SOI) substrates, boosting
the performance of RF devices. Because this layer is built into the
substrate, it reduces the number of process steps and relaxes
design rules, leading to a highly competitive performance and die
cost, including a smaller area per function. RF designers can
therefore integrate diverse functions such as switches, power
amplifiers and antenna tuners with excellent RF isolation, good
insertion loss, better thermal conductivity and better signal
integrity than other technologies.
About Soitec: Soitec is an international
manufacturing company, a world leader in generating and
manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials at the frontier
of the most exciting energy and electronic challenges. Soitec's
products include substrates for microelectronics (most notably SOI:
silicon-on-insulator) and concentrator photovoltaic systems (CPV).
The company's core technologies are Smart Cut(TM), Smart
Stacking(TM) and Concentrix(TM), as well as expertise in epitaxy.
Applications include consumer and mobile electronics,
microelectronics-driven IT, telecommunications, automotive
electronics, lighting products and large-scale solar power plants.
Soitec has manufacturing plants and R&D centers in France,
Singapore, Germany and the United States. For more information,
visit: www.soitec.com.
International
Media Contacts (trade press) Camille Dufour
+33 (0)6 79 49 51 43
camille.dufour@soitec.com (business press) Marylen Schmidt +33 (0)
4 76 92 87 83 marylen.schmidt@soitec.com |
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Investor
Relations Olivier Brice +33 (0)4 76 92 93 80
olivier.brice@soitec.com |
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