- Soitec
Soitec is a French
semiconductor manufacturer which specializes in the production of Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) wafers. Soitec is listed on theEuronext Paris exchange [cite web |url=http://www.soitec.com/en/finance/shareholders-information.php |title=Shareholders Information |accessdate=2007-12-14 |format= |work= ] , and its headquarters are located in Bernin,France.The company was created in
1992 by two researchers: André Auberton-Hervé and Jean-Michel Lamure from CEA-Léti (one of Europe’s largest microelectronics research institutes) located inGrenoble , France.Soitec is using the
Smart Cut technology instead of the previousSIMOX which is less manufacturable in high volume. The Smart Cut represents about 90% of the SOI market, and Soitec represent about 80% of this Smart Cut market. The remaining share of the Smart Cut market is serviced by SEH (Shin Etsu Handotaï), which has been licenced since 1997. Siltronic also purchased a licence in 2004.Soitec's clients include
AMD ,Freescale Semiconductor ,Mitsubishi Electric , OKI,IBM Microelectronics,Philips Semiconductors ,Sony ,Toshiba , and more. Some of these companies have chosen to develop their major market applications — servers, PCs,watches , automotive sensors,game consoles , HTDV televisions, and like so — on Soitec products.External links
* [http://www.soitec.com/ SOITEC]
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