Open-source software: The road ahead.
Today, open source software (OSS) development is one of the primary driving forces of technological innovation. From artificial intelligence to the Internet of Things, autonomous driving, and cloud computing infrastructure, OSS plays a pivotal role in the evolution of a wide range of technologies.
But what are the implications of its dominance?
To answer this, we review what we’ve learned about OSS over the past 11 years. To read more, click here.
Increasing complexity, disaggregation, and continued feature shrinks add to problem; oversight is scant.
Academia, industry partnerships ramp to entice undergrads into hardware engineering.
Packaging and inspection companies draw funding; 124 startups raise over $2.3 billion.
Pitches continue to decrease, but new tooling and technologies are required.
Buried features and re-entrant geometries drive application-specific metrology solutions.
Existing tools can be used for RISC-V, but they may not be the most effective or efficient. What else is needed?
The industry is gaining ground in understanding how aging affects reliability, but more variables make it harder to fix.
Technical and business challenges persist, but momentum is building.
Gate-all-around is set to replace finFET, but it brings its own set of challenges and unknowns.
The verification of a processor is a lot more complex than a comparably-sized ASIC, and RISC-V processors take this to another layer of complexity.
The industry seems to think it is a real goal for the open instruction set architecture.
High speed and low heat make this technology essential, but it’s extremely complex and talent is hard to find and train.
Academia, industry partnerships ramp to entice undergrads into hardware engineering.
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