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IBM on Monday officially started to offer its customers to manufacture chips using 45nm silicon-on-insulator process technology, just days before Advanced Micro Devices which uses fabrication processes developed with IBM plans to start shipments of its new microprocessors made using 45nm SOI ...
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IBM Ready to Manufacture Chips for Clients Using 45nm Process Technology
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... metal-oxide, or bulk CMOS.
But while SOI has many advantages, it is much more expensive compared to bulk process technologies. As a result only a number of companies utilize SOI to manufacture their products. One of such companies is AMD, which has been making its central processing units using various SOI processes for five years now. IBM also uses SOI to make its own microprocessors. Still, the mass market of semiconductors has not adopted SOI just yet.
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