We&rsquove mentioned half a year ago about the added benefits of using ultra processed FD-SOI wafers and how this could lead to big reductions in power consumption reaching 550% according to research completed by STMicro.
The French-Italian semiconductor corporation has carried out considerable exploration on the matter as the world &rsquos biggest FD-SOI wafer supplier is Soitec and this is also a French organization with near collaborations with STMicro.
FD-SOI does an exceptionally excellent career at cutting down the leakage electrical power and primarily reducing energy consumption for chips operating at modest frequencies.
The exciting component is that FD-SOI is generally about the wafer and adapting your manufacturing line to use FD-SOI wafers.
Working with FD-SOI wafers brings significant rewards to the technology and TSMC is making use of normal bulk 28nm wafers.
There are reports saying that GlobalFoundires has last but not least adapted most of its advanced manufacturing capacities to use FD-SOI wafers and there are other reports that say that even buyers operating with the ATIC opened foundry view its 28nm techno as currently being considerably better than TSMC&rsquos.
We&rsquove just reported that China&rsquos Rockchip is now doing work with GlobalFoundires on manufacturing its new ARM tablet SoC on the 28nm technology from the Dresden FAB.
The fabless Chinese chip designer strongly believes that contracting GlobalFoundries manufacturing companies will give it an edge more than MediaTek even when the Taiwanese chip giant will move to TSMC&rsquos 28nm production.
Thus we should anticipate some seriously modest power consumption from AMD&rsquos potential 28nm processors and APUs following Spring as nicely some major frequency boosts, relying on the style and design choices.
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