Tech & Innovation : Soitec
An ecosystem combining a state-owned research laboratory and SOITEC is propelling France as a world leader in high performance semiconductor materials. The Grenoble laboratory called LETI (Laboratoire d’électronique des technologies de l’information) is a research institute for micro- and nano-technologies created by the French Commission for Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies (CEA). France’s SOITEC is a world leader in developing and manufacturing innovative semiconductor materials.
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Two successes have pushed SOITEC’s technology to a world leading position. First in 2014 Samsung signed a foundry and license agreement to use the FD-SOI technology to produce 28 nano-meters integrated circuits for mobile phones. Then in 2015, GlobalFoundries, a semiconductor foundry headquartered in Sata Clara, California, announced the setting up of a technological platform for producing 22 nanometers chips using SOITEC’s FD-SOI technology. With the success of its technologies, SOITEC, which is listed on the Euronext Paris stock Exchange, expects to double its present revenue of €240 million in the next three years.
Sources : electronicsweekly.com, ft.com, lesechos.fr, lemonde.fr
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Online publishing, July 16th, 2016