Soitec solutions for the IT and communication markets
The explosion in online content, increasing data volumes, and broader access to computing power from virtually anywhere have spurred demand for high-performance computing, high-bandwidth data exchange, and faster communication speeds. Soitec provides market-leading engineered substrates to support the development and manufacturing of electronic devices with increased computing power.
Ten years’ experience volume-shipping to manufacturers. Each year, industry leaders ship more than 100 million high-performance chips using Soitec products.
High-performance processors currently constitute the largest market for Soitec’s SOI wafers:
- Each year, more than 100 million SOI-based CPUs and other processors are manufactured for a broad spectrum of applications:
- PCs
- Game consoles
- Servers
- Networking equipment
- Supercomputers for communication, finance, simulators, medical imaging, bioscience, military, and many others markets.
- SOI is also found in most of the top 30 most energy-efficient supercomputers on the Green500 list.
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Market |
Applications |
Functions |
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High-performance computing
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PCs Gaming Servers Supercomputers |
Digital processing |
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Communications
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Network processing Optical transmission |
Digital processing Photonics |
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Functions |
Challenges |
Soitec products |
Value proposition |
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Digital |
Lower power consumption & increase system performance Reduce system footprint & increase number of functions |
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Significant increase in performance at identical power consumption Extremely lower power consumption at identical performance Better integration of new features Better immunity to soft errors Additional embedded memory options |
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Photonics |
Integrate with standard CMOS Manage many discrete components |
Insulating BOX layer provides cladding Integration with CMOS Faster data transmission rates Cost effective Energy efficient |