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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (22718)	12/18/2000 5:32:08 AM
From: Gopher Broke	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Thanks for the link. A difficult read for the layman, but aren't the researchers a bit too hung up on transistor switching speed? I would have thought that SOI had other benefits that could result in an overall faster running processor and better yields. Doesn't the presence of the insulating plane help with a cleaner delineation of the devices? Isn't it possible to have a thinner insulating layer and so better heat removal from the base of the chip in a FCPGA packaging? One other thought. The conclusion of the Intel researchers seems to be that SOI works great on .18 but by extrapolation it will not be nearly as good on .10. But at these dimensions perhaps some of the relationships they assume are linear become less so? Why did Intel not actually experiment with both processes at .13? IBM did so and they are saying that SOI is a huge advantage.

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