SOI Industry Consortium's first general members' forum

BOSTON, USA: The SOI Industry Consortium announced today that it will hold the First Annual SOI Industry Consortium Members’ Forum, one year after the organization’s formal launch. The General Member’s Forum will be held at the TechMart in Santa Clara, California on November 11, 2008.

The SOI Industry Consortium Forum is designed to further the consortium’s mission of accelerating silicon-on-insulator (SOI) innovation into broad markets by promoting the benefits of SOI technology and reducing the barriers to adoption.

“The consortium is entering its second year with great momentum. We have developed the SOI Industry Consortium Forum to share and discuss members’ research and findings, and to bring the stakeholders of SOI technology together to network and provide inputs on the consortium’s priorities,” said Horacio Mendez, executive director of the SOI Industry Consortium.

The program will include a keynote from Nvidia on graphics silicon technology needs and its impact on SOI. Also, as one of the big key challenges in today's products are memory content and memory stability, the program includes two presentations on these issues. Other presenters will review current challenges of the industry and how SOI provides solutions.

Topics include:

• SOI For Low-Power Applications

• Considerations when comparing Bulk and SOI

• SOI: Embedded memory challenges and solutions

• SOI: Revolutionary Memory Solutions

The event will close with a panel entitled "SOI's Future and the Foundry Business: What are the key ingredients for success?". It will include discussions about the design ecosystem, low-power markets and all of the remaining challenges to full SOI deployment in the fabless/foundry arena.

This event is open to anyone currently working for a company that is a member of the consortium. The SOI Industry Consortium is open to any company, organization or academic institution with an interest in SOI.