retro: Intel to use SOI

[YKhan]

From 2002:

AnandTech: Intel's 0.09-micron Process - More Details Emerge
"We've already explained how Silicon on Insulator works and both AMD
and Intel have committed to using the technology; AMD will be first to
market with SOI through their Hammer parts, while Intel will introduce
SOI with their 65nm process in 2005."
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=1677&p=3

That was then, and this is now.

Yousuf Khan

 

[David Kanter]

AnandTech: Intel's 0.09-micron Process - More Details Emerge
"We've already explained how Silicon on Insulator works and both AMD
and Intel have committed to using the technology; AMD will be first to
market with SOI through their Hammer parts, while Intel will introduce
SOI with their 65nm process in 2005."
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=1677&p=3

That was then, and this is now.

Yousuf Khan

Yup. Intel really doesn't want to use SOI because it increases costs a
bit, and decreases yields.

 

[Yousuf Khan]

Yup. Intel really doesn't want to use SOI because it increases costs a
bit, and decreases yields.

Until they get some practice making processors with them, I guess.

Yousuf Khan

 

[keith]

Until they get some practice making processors with them, I guess.

No doubt that SOI is a PITA. It seems to be worthwile for those who
master it though. It wasn't long ago that copper was "impossible".