by Mat Dirjish

The FAMES Pilot Line, a five-year project to boost European technical sovereignty in critical semiconductor technologies, is at its halfway point and will present early breakthroughs on June 24, 2026 at the CEA-Leti LID World Summit 2026 in Grenoble. A half-day workshop, “The FAMES Payoff Begins”, will present major results in the areas of FD-SOI advanced nodes, embedded NVMs, 3D integration, RF components, and power-management ICs.

Attendees will gain insights into technologies that may reshape the landscape for AI factories, IoT, and secure edge computing. These include:

• State-of-the-Art Infrastructure: how to design and build a sustainable and flexible cleanroom adapting to new generation of process equipment.
• Process Scaling: key architectural building blocks driving the 10-nm FD-SOI node, including strain engineering and self-aligned double patterning techniques.
• Next-Gen Memory: first demonstration of a scalable Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 (HZO) based ferroelectric capacitor platform integrated into the back-end-of-line at the 22nm FD-SOI node, positioning FeRAM as a competitive solution for embedded applications.
• Advanced RF: bulk acoustic wave filter solutions adapted for the emerging FR3 frequency range (7.125 – 24.25 GHz), bridging the gap between sub-6-GHz and millimeter-wave technologies.
• Hardware Security: a look at “invisible walls” for cybersecurity, showcasing how FD-SOI and new memory implementations enable polymorphic hardware obfuscation and physical unclonable functions to resist side-channel attacks and counterfeiting.
• Open Access: an introduction of the recently opened topics for 2026, and a focus on the availability of a pathfinding design kit to evaluate the performance of the 10nm FD-SOI CMOS technology.
• Empowering the Ecosystem: a workshop that will formalize the FAMES Academy’s role as the primary educator for Europe’s next generation of microelectronics talent.

For more details and to register, visit the FAMES Pilot Line website. Also visit the CEA-Leti LID World Summit 2026 website.

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