NVIDIA Joins the SOI Industry Consortium

    SEMICON WEST, SAN FRANCISCO, July 16 /EMWNews/ -- The SOI Industry

Consortium announced today that NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA), the world leader in

visual computing technologies, has joined the organization. The SOI

Industry Consortium, which was formed in October 2007 by a group of leading

companies from across the electronics industry, is aimed at accelerating

silicon-on-insulator (SOI) innovation into broad markets by promoting the

benefits of SOI technology and reducing the barriers to adoption.



    NVIDIA serves the entertainment and consumer market, the professional

design and visualization market, as well as the high-performance computing

market. Their products are transforming visually-rich and

computationally-intensive applications such as video games, film

production, broadcasting, industrial design, financial modeling, space

exploration, and medical imaging.



    NVIDIA brings the SOI Consortium membership to twenty three companies.

Other members include: AMD, Applied Materials, ARM, Cadence Design Systems,

CEA-Leti, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Freescale Semiconductor,

IBM, Innovative Silicon, KLA-Tencor, Lam Research, Magma Design, Samsung,

Semico, Soitec, SEH Europe, STMicroelectronics, Synopsys, TSMC, Tyndall

Institute, UCL and UMC.



    "NVIDIA is pleased to join the SOI consortium. We are looking forward

in participating on the advancement of such an innovative technology and

its applications to future products," said John Chen, VP, Technology and

Foundry Operations at NVIDIA.



    "We are honored to partner with NVIDIA. Their unique insight and

perspectives as the world leader in visual computing will be very valuable

in articulating the technology direction of the consortium," says Horacio

Mendez, executive director of the SOI Industry Consortium. "NVIDIA' s entry

into the SOI Industry Consortium supports the momentum we are gaining

throughout the electronics industry from end-users and enablers to

suppliers and manufacturers," added Mendez.



    The SOI Industry Consortium is open to any company, organization or

academic institution with an interest in SOI.



    Visit the SOI Industry Consortium in San Francisco, at Semicon West,

West Hall, level 2 booth #L12.

    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 include: AMD, Applied

Materials, ARM, Cadence Design Systems, CEA-Leti, Chartered Semiconductor

Manufacturing Ltd, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Innovative Silicon,

KLA-Tencor, Lam Research, Magma Design, Samsung, Semico, Soitec, SEH

Europe, STMicroelectronics, Synopsys, TSMC , Tyndall Institute, UCL 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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officers in the SOI Industry Consortium or in this presentation or other

communication vehicles are not necessarily representative of the views and

opinions of individual members. Officers of the SOI Industry Consortium

speaking on behalf of the Consortium should not be considered to be

speaking for the member company or companies they are associated with, but

rather as representing the views of the SOI Industry Consortium. Views and

opinions are also subject to change without notice, and the SOI Industry

Consortium assumes no obligation to update the information in this

communication or accompanying discussions.






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