(Reuters) – Soitec will supply GlobalFoundries (GF) with its RF-SOI wafers for GF’s latest radio platform. The French semiconductor manufacturer said it would provide 300mm RF-SOI wafers for GF’s radio solution, 9SW, which will be used to make future 5G and Wi-Fi chips. “The transition from 5G to 5G-Advanced, and eventually 6G, requires ever-higher performance […]
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(Reuters) – Soitec will supply GlobalFoundries (GF) with its RF-SOI wafers for GF’s latest radio platform.
The French semiconductor manufacturer said it would provide 300mm RF-SOI wafers for GF’s radio solution, 9SW, which will be used to make future 5G and Wi-Fi chips.
“The transition from 5G to 5G-Advanced, and eventually 6G, requires ever-higher performance and energy efficiency, as well as increasing compactness for next-generation devices,” Soitec said in a statement.
The company, whose customers include TSMC, UMC, Sony, and STMicroelectronics, has faced sharp inventory corrections in a sluggish smartphone market.
Soitec said during its first-half earnings that it saw a rebound in the smartphone market lifting sales of its RF-SOI wafers, as orders have picked up from the low levels recorded in the first quarter of the year.
(Reporting by Nathan Vifflin. Editing by Jane Merriman and Mark Potter)