STM secures Additional Sourcing
VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE STMicroelectronics (STM) has announced that GLOBALFOUNDRIES has agreed to manufacture devices for ST using ST's proprietary Fully Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator (FD-SOI) technology in both the 28nm and 20nm nodes. ST FD-SOI technology has already been selected by ST-Ericsson for its use in the future mobile platforms, which will enable enhanced performance from the ST-Ericsson NovaThor platform with much less battery usage - as much as 35-per cent lower-power consumption at maximum performance. "ST has demonstrated, with its partners, the significant performance and power advantages of FD-SOI over conventional technologies. FD-SOI is ideally suited for wireless and tablet applications, where it provides fully-depleted transistor benefits using conventional planar technology, and this arrangement with GLOBALFOUNDRIES ensures our customers will have a secure source of supply," said Joel Hartmann, STMicroe...