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To: nigel bates who wrote (197)	11/12/1998 12:17:00 PM
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<<Bandwidth looms as key issue for ISSCC confab By Ron Wilson SAN FRANCISCO — The 1999 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), to be held next February, will explore facets of the perplexing pursuit of bandwidth in the search to slake the unquenchable thirst of a media-laden culture. Process advances will highlight the conference in San Francisco, as a special joint session will outline the coming-of-age of commercial silicon-on-insulator (SOI) processes. IBM Microelectronics, for example, will describe PowerPC 603 and 750 processors retargeted directly from bulk CMOS to an implanted-oxygen-layer SOI process. The company will report performance gains of up to 30 percent from the process change alone, without any re-optimization of circuits. Similarly, Samsung Semiconductor will describe a 600-MHz Alpha processor and a low-power 16-Mbit DRAM, both implemented in their own SOI process.>> Full text at: edtn.com The part about not having to re-design is important because (in addition to cost and availability of substrates) the major concern about going to SOI is that of having to re-design circuits.

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