• Silicon on sapphire (SOS) is a hetero-epitaxial process for metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing that consists of a thin...
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    remain at 150 mm. Silicon on sapphire is different from silicon substrate as the substrate is sapphire, while superstrate is silicon, while epitaxal layers...
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    titanium, cobalt, lead, chromium, vanadium, magnesium, boron, and silicon. The name sapphire is derived from the Latin word sapphirus, itself from the Greek...
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  • conventional silicon-built devices in that the silicon junction is above an electrical insulator, typically silicon dioxide or sapphire (these types of...
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  • career focused on chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of materials. In 1963 he was the first to document epitaxial growth of silicon on sapphire, and in 1968...
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  • UltraCMOS technology is a proprietary implementation of silicon on sapphire (SOS) and silicon on insulator (SOI) substrates that enables high levels of...
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  • services specialising in the field of power semiconductor devices and silicon on sapphire integrated circuit products. The power products they manufacture...
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    Harold M. Manasevit was the first to document epitaxial growth of silicon on sapphire while working at the Autonetics division of North American Aviation...
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  • scientist and researcher. In the semiconductor industry, he advanced silicon on sapphire (SOS) and CMOS technology. In 1969, Reedy graduated from the United...
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    materials. Examples include silicon on sapphire, gallium nitride (GaN) on sapphire, aluminium gallium indium phosphide (AlGaInP) on gallium arsenide (GaAs)...
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  • alumina, silicon, gallium arsenide (GaAs), silicon on sapphire (SoS), ceramics, and delicate compound semiconductors.[citation needed] Dicing of silicon wafers...
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    engineering effort, which included HP-developed and -manufactured silicon on sapphire (SOS) processor and I/O chips. The HP300 was initially designed as...
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  • Intel to utilize a disaggregated MCM approach and included in-silicon accelerators. Sapphire Rapids launched late and topped out at 60 cores, far behind...
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    registers. The design of the FOCUS CPU was richly inspired by the custom silicon on sapphire (SOS) chip design HP used in their HP 3000 series machines. Because...
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    LED industry and for the production of silicon on sapphire wafers for integrated circuits (RFICs), as well as on high-quality optical and industrial applications...
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  • with yields from its Intel 7 node with yields of 50–60% on higher core-count silicon. Sapphire Rapids was originally scheduled for a launch in the first...
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  • implementing it as the MAS1908 VIPER-1, fabricated using CMOS and silicon-on-sapphire technologies, being packaged as a 120-pin grid array product. Architecturally...
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    first implemented with Transistor-transistor logic, and later with Silicon on Sapphire chips beginning with the Series 33 in 1979. In the early 1980s, HP...
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    was introduced. This used a new processor based on HP's large-scale integration silicon on sapphire process. Additionally, the expansion cards were also...
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    Computer. It goes on to state that another lab will be producing the system in an 8-chip silicon-on-sapphire format, although the date is simply...
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    Common technology types are silicon (monocrystalline), polysilicon thin film, bonded metal foil, thick film, silicon-on-sapphire and sputtered thin film....
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    variant was available fabricated using a special production process, silicon on sapphire (SOS), which provided much better protection against cosmic radiation...
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    workstations, another Series 200 line of technical workstations based on a custom silicon on sapphire (SOS) chip design, the SOS based 16-bit HP 3000 classic series...
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  • Scrum of scrums, in software development SHARE Operating System, IBM Silicon on sapphire, a circuit-manufacturing process Son of sysreport, in Linux; see...
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    prevent latch-up in space, epitaxial substrates, silicon on insulator (SOI) or silicon on sapphire (SOS) are often used to further reduce or eliminate...
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  • MIL-STD-1750AAV space flight qualified processor. A multi-board silicon on sapphire implementation specifically designed for space flight. Marconi Electronic...
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  • unit became the RTX2010. All of these were produced primarily on a silicon on sapphire line for space applications. A similar 32-bit design, the RTX 4000...
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  • often manufactured on insulating substrates instead of the usual semiconductor wafers. Silicon on insulator (SOI) and silicon on sapphire (SOS) are commonly...
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    CPUs: four on the spun side and two on the despun side. Each CPU was clocked at about 1.6 MHz, and fabricated on sapphire (silicon on sapphire), which is...
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    cylinder, a daisy-chain or as a torus. The PEs were implemented on a custom silicon-on-sapphire LSI chip which contained eight of the PEs as a 2x4 subarray...
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