SOI Industry Consortium Reinforces its Academic and Research Support; Three More Prestigious Universities Join

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 17 /PRNewswire/ — The SOI Industry
Consortium, an international group aimed at accelerating broad adoption of
silicon-on-insulator (SOI) materials technology across semiconductor markets,
announced today that it is reinforcing its academic and research support with
the additions of three prestigious universities at the forefront of SOI
applied research. Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley and
Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan have all joined the consortium as
academic members.

“We are very pleased to welcome Stanford, U.C. Berkeley and Ritsumeikan
University. With these additions, we are expanding our excellent ecosystem of
prestigious academic and research support,” says Horacio Mendez, Executive
Director of the SOI Industry Consortium. “Our members in academia are key
contributors in both basic and applied SOI research. Together, we can
facilitate cooperation with industry and other research organizations,
helping to accelerate the use of SOI in both emerging and established
application fields. Conversely, academia is our gateway to the future,
providing our industry with researchers and engineers who have a strong
grounding in the use and advantages of SOI.”

The SOI Industry Consortium will continue promoting cooperation between
commercial members and academia and research institutes. Representing leaders
spanning the entire electronics industry infrastructure, the SOI Industry
Consortium’s membership now counts seven academic members and research
institutes worldwide. The others include Tyndall Institute, “Universite
Catholique de Louvain” (UCL), as well as IMEC, and Leti. The group’s
expertise covers key areas such as ultra-low power applications, MEMS,
advanced CMOS, Fully Depleted (FD) SOI, FinFETS, photonics, analog, SOC and
RF applications.

The SOI Industry Consortium is open to any company, organization or
academic institution with an interest in SOI.

About the SOI Industry Consortium:

The SOI Industry Consortium is chartered with accelerating
silicon-on-insulator (SOI) innovation into broad markets by promoting the
benefits of SOI technology and reducing the barriers to adoption.
Representing leaders spanning the entire electronics industry infrastructure,
SOI Industry Consortium members today include: Applied Materials, ARM,
Cadence Design Systems, CEA-Leti, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing,
Freescale Semiconductor, Globalfoundries, IBM, IMEC, Infotech, Innovative
Silicon, KLA-Tencor, Lam Research, Magma Design, Nvidia, Ritsumeikan
University, Samsung, Semico, Soitec, SEH Europe, Stanford University,
STMicroelectronics, Symmid Semiconductor, Synopsys, TSMC, Tyndall Institute,
UC Berkeley, University Catholique de Louvain, and UMC. Membership is open to
all companies and institutions throughout the electronics industry. For more
information, see http://www.soiconsortium.org

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    Press Contact:
    Camille Darnaud-Dufour
    +33(0)6-79-49-51-43
    camille.darnaud-dufour@soiconsortium.org

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