Soitec
| Société Anonyme – SA (French publicly-traded limited company) | |
| Traded as | Euronext: SOI |
| Founded | 1992 |
| Founder | André-Jacques Auberton Hervé & Jean-Michel Lamure |
| Headquarters | Bernin (Isère), France |
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Key people
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Paul Boudre (CEO and chairman) |
| Products |
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| Revenue | €222.9 million (2014–2015) |
| Owner | General public (82.666%) BPI France (9.542%) Caisse des Dépôts (3.736%) André-Jacques Auberton-Hervé (2.302%) Shin-Etsu Handotai Co., Ltd. (partner since 1997 and Soitec's first licensee) (1.925%) Auberton-Hervé family (0.229%) |
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Number of employees
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1,149 (31 March 2015) |
| Website | soitec |
Soitec is a France-based international industrial company specialized in generating and manufacturing high performance semiconductor materials.
Soitec's semiconductor materials are used to manufacture chips which equip smartphones, tablets, computers, IT servers, and data centres. Soitec's products are also found in electronic components used in cars, connected objects (Internet of Things), as well as industrial and medical equipment.
Soitec's flagship product is silicon on insulator (SOI). Materials produced by Soitec come in the form of substrates (also called "wafers"). These are produced as ultra-thin disks that are 200 to 300 mm in diameter and are less than 1 mm thick. These wafers are then etched and cut to be used for microchips in electronics.
Soitec was founded in 1992 near Grenoble in France by two researchers from CEA-Leti, an institute for micro- and nanotechnologies research created by the French Commission for Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies (CEA). The pair developed Smart Cut™ technology to industrialize Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) wafers, and built their first production unit in Bernin, in the Isère department of France.
By applying this technology to materials other than silicon and developing further processes, Soitec has built up expertise in the field of semiconductor materials for the electronics market.
Soitec's offering initially targeted the electronics market. At the end of the 2000s, Soitec launched into the solar energy and lighting markets, exploiting new openings for its materials and technologies. In 2015, the company announced that it would be refocusing its efforts on its core business: electronics.
Soitec employs about one thousand people throughout the world and currently has production units in France and in Singapore. The company also has R&D centers and commercial offices in France, the United States (Arizona and California), China, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.
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