This week was a conference held in Shanghai ,Among the speakers at the forum was the CEO of GlobalFoundries - Sanjay Jha.
In June, the company introduced the technological process 22FDX. This process technology with the norms of 22 nm on a fully depleted silicon wafers with an additional insulating substrate "silicon on insulator" (FD-SOI). FD-SOI wafer can help reduce leakage and improve the efficiency of the transistors. In addition, technology is implemented with an offset voltage supply unit allows further reduce leakage due to decreasing supply of up to 0.3 volts. This technology came to the company from IBM, and with the completion in July absorption factories IBM will develop the forces of the GlobalFoundries.
Recently, GlobalFoundries factory in Dresden released the first test silicon on FD-SOI (22FDX). Commercial production with process technology 22FDX will begin in the second half of 2016. 22FDX process technology promises the emergence of semiconductors for the price of 28-nm-making. According to GlobalFoundries head - Issue decisions on FD-SOI wafers will lead to the emergence of smart phones cost up to $ 100 and even $ 80, the performance of which will be similar to the modern flagship model. Process technology, like 14-nm FinFET, would never allow such a release available models with similar capabilities. In this respect, the rate on FD-SOI wafer becomes a strategic decision.
As is well known, for the production of 14-nm FinFET semiconductor GlobalFoundries company acquired the license from Samsung. Absorption plants at IBM resulted in the appointment of experts . Therefore, further technical processes GlobalFoundries company will develop its own. EUV-use equipment is unlikely to succeed until 2018 or 2019, so in all the same immersion lithography with a 193-nm scanners. The company will scale up the production of 10 and 7 nm.
Also GlobalFoundries got from IBM company technology and factory for production of RF modules plates RF-SOI. Especially this production benefited from the commissioning of networks 4G (LTE) to the mass of the workers of sub-bands. According to GlobalFoundries, this segment would be the only one that will bring the ever-growing profits in the market of chipsets for smartphones. To enhance this trend the company started to transfer production technology RF-SOI at its plants in Singapore.
In addition, it addresses the issue of 22FDX technology introduction (FD-SOI) at Fab 8 in the United States. Overall, GlobalFoundries company exudes confidence.