Things change often in digital land, so something that's true one day...
IBM has announced that they're
offering foundry services to everyone. I mentioned somewhere in here that Intel had the best fabs on the planet and weren't interested in the contract market. Well, IBM has the second best fabs on the planet and apparently they can't generate enough work on their own. So Nikon or Canon or Sony (or all of them) can get access to 45nm, SOI goodness in their next generation image processors.
D300 users tired of 14-bit slowdowns? Throw a few million more transistors at the problem. Digic IV isn't fast enough? Bring down temperatures with SOI and up the clock speed.