IBM:
• IBM and partners announced the ‘high-k gate-first‘ approach for 32nm SOI, boosting SOI transistor speed >30% at a lower voltage.
• At ISSCC 08, an IBM paper on the automated migration of Cell from 65nm to 45nm indicated chip power consumption was reduced by about 40% and area by 34%.
• IBM reported in Nature Photonics on the world’s tiniest nanophotonic switch, which was built on SOI.
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