Globalfoundries and Samsung promote FD-SOI in China
 

Optimistic about growth

Globalfoundries and Samsung are optimistic about chip demand for automotive and IoT applications in China, and are promoting their respective fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) process technology there.



Globalfoundries CEO Sanjay Jha and ES Jung, EVP & GM of Samsung Foundry, said that they were targeting FD-SOI technology as a low-cost alternative to FinFET .

The Chinese are dead keen on the FD-SOI process because it is much cheaper than FinFET and will help them get a foot in the door of the coming moves to automotive and AI chips . The backing of Globalfoundries and Samsung has enabled a more complete FD-SOI ecosystem to be developed.

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