SOITEC to supply CSMC
The Soitec Group has announced today that the company has entered into an agreement to supply silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrates to CSMC Technologies Corporation (“CSMC”), a pure-play specialty analogue foundry based in China. Soitec is sampling SOI substrates for High Voltage (HV) and CMOS applications initially aimed at colour plasma display panel (PDP) driver integrated circuits (ICs) and other mixed signal and analogue applications. The company is seeing interest and support in China for SOI projects.
SOI is a cost-optimized technology increasing device performance and reliability, while lowering power consumption. These advantages are an excellent complement to consumer electronics markets, as well as continued expansion into worldwide markets for automotive, RF/wireless, high-voltage, power management, photonics, imaging, lighting and more.
“With this agreement, CSMC will use Soitec's wafers on several major SOI projects for High Voltage and CMOS technology. We believe the partnership with Soitec will help us to provide a more cost-effective solution to our customers,” said Filian Wu, VP of Analogue Process Technology Development Centre.
“As the world's leader in SOI substrates, we are very pleased to collaborate with CSMC and will support their plans to ramp up SOI based products,” said Paul Boudre, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Soitec Group. “Over the last two years, we have experienced a strong acceleration of interest in SOI substrates in China mainly by the majority of the largest local foundries and institutes. Today these development projects are moving to first production ramp up and we expect a significant growth of SOI based products in China in the coming years.”
