• Feature: SOI & Design (ARM, Synopsys, Mentor, IBM)
• Business & Technology (GSA/SOI Consortium survey, Yole, Soitec, Mattson, Raytheon, ST)
• Special Supplement: SOI Industry Consortium news
• Industry Buzz (ST & Debiotech, Intel, Hitachi & Renesas, Atmel, AMD, Toshiba, IBM, Rambus, Honeywell, Semico and more.)

Jul. 31, 2008 THE SOI INDUSTRY CONSORTIUM WELCOMES A KEY IP SERVICES PROVIDER
Jul. 16, 2008 NVIDIA JOINS THE SOI INDUSTRY CONSORTIUM
Jun. 3, 2008 GLOBAL INDUSTRY SURVEY RESULTS REFLECT STRONG INTEREST IN SOI FOR LOW POWER AT MAINSTREAM TECHNOLOGY NODES

Jul. 17, 2008 SOI gathers steam
[EE Times]
Jul. 16, 2008 Nvidia to Explore SOI Manufacturing Technology
[X-bit labs]
Jul. 16, 2008 NVIDIA joins SOI Industry Consortium as 23rd member
[Fabtech]

Jul. 30, 2008 HIGHLIGHT NEWS
SOI Global Market Poised for Double-Digit Growth Through 2012
[VLSI Research Inc]
Jul. 30, 2008 Market for SOI to reach $1.1B by 2012, VLSI Research reports
[Electronic News]
Jul. 16, 2008 Soitec Ready With Ultrathin SOI Wafers
[Semiconductor International]
By Christine Raynaud, CEA-LETI / STMicroelectronics
For RF applications, SOI offers key advantages over bulk. It provides the ability to meet very low voltage and low noise applications, allows for improvement of passive devices and improves integration capabilities to reduce cost. This short course details the considerations for RF design with SOI.