This led to the first commercial use of SOI in mainstream CMOS technology. SOI was first commercialized in 1995, when Shahidi's work on SOI convinced John Kelly, who ran IBM's server division, to adopt SOI in the AS/400 line of server products, which used 220 nm CMOS with copper metallization SOI devices.
The introduction of SOI led to its first commercial deployment in mainstream CMOS technology. In 1995, Shahidi's research on SOI prompted John Kelly, who oversaw IBM's server division, to adopt SOI in the AS/400 line of servers, which employed 220 nm CMOS with copper metallization SOI components.