tag: Moore’s Law

EUV Reaches A Crossroads
By Mark LaPedus - 20 Mar, 2014 - Comments: 3

[gettech id="31045" comment="EUV"] (EUV) [getkc id="80" comment="lithography"] is at a crossroads. 2014 represents a critical year for the technology. In fact, it may answer a pressing question about EUV: Does it work or not? It’s too early to make that determination right now, but there are more uncertainties than ever for the oft-delayed technology. Originally aimed for the 65nm node in... » read more

Power Shift
By Ed Sperling - 13 Mar, 2014 - Comments: 1

The disaggregation of the mobile market, which began with Nokia, Ericsson and RIM challenging the entrenched position of Motorola back in the late 1990s, is shifting again. This time it’s being driven by a different kind of power play, namely physical power issues inside a device. The biggest problem in shrinking die and pushing economies of scale in conjunction with Moore’s Law is relat... » read more

Looking Beyond Moore’s Law
By Mark LaPedus - 20 Feb, 2014 - Comments: 2

For decades, chip scaling has followed a simple linear curve. In this curve, the transistor gate-pitch scales at 0.7x every two years. This is the driving force behind Moore’s Law, which states that the number of transistors per chip roughly doubles every two years. But starting at the 16nm/14nm node, there is a change taking place in chip scaling. According to a chart from Imec, there are... » read more

Can We Ever Agree On Moore’s Law?
By Ed Sperling - 13 Feb, 2014 - Comments: 0

Nearly five decades after Moore’s Law was first introduced—the famous observation turns 50 next year—we’re still debating it. There are disagreements about whether it was an economic or technology statement. There are questions about whether it was really every 24 months or every 18 months—it was actually both. And there are questions about which companies it really applied to and who... » read more

What Goes Around Comes Around: Moore’s Law At 10nm And Beyond
By Greg Yeric - 13 Feb, 2014 - Comments: 2

Modified by Greg Yeric from original by Eric Fischer Gordon Moore penned his famous observation in an era when the people developing the process were also the people designing the circuits. Over time, things got more complicated and work specialization set in, but all was well in the world for many years as the fabs kept delivering on Moore’s Law. Yes, designers had to come up with lot... » read more

Choosing The Right Systems Design Path
By Brian Fuller - 13 Feb, 2014 - Comments: 0

I’m a cheap bastard, usually given to self-abnegation when it comes to buying material goods for myself. But I broke down and bought a runner’s watch late last year because I wanted to change up my exercise routine to run the same distances, only faster. I quickly decided against going all in and getting a GPS watch. At this point in the arc of electronics-design technology, it’s hard ... » read more

Tech Talk: Power, Performance And Area In 2.5D
By Ed Sperling - 12 Feb, 2014 - Comments: 2

The cost will be comparable at first, but the only way to improve power, performance AND area at the same time will be with a different architectural approach. [youtube vid=XAbE7jpjuMA] » read more

Industry Restructures Around Cost
By Ed Sperling - 19 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 1

Talk to any semiconductor executive these days about what’s next for their company and you’ll probably encounter the same perspective—cost will drive future design decisions. Dig a little further, however, and you’ll find no consistent strategy for reducing that cost. While the industry has three very viable solutions for improving the power and performance characteristics of SoCs—... » read more

Industry-Shaking Changes Ahead
By Kurt Shuler - 19 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 1

I’ve been closely following the increasing power of system OEMs (such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft) over players in the semiconductor industry with an eye toward understanding how this will affect others in the semi value chain. However, I haven’t paid as much attention to the root causes of why these changes are occurring. McKinsey & Company has provided our industry food f... » read more

Experts At The Table: MEMS Challenges
By Mark LaPedus - 13 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 1

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the challenges of MEMS with Rakesh Kumar, senior director of the MEMS program at GlobalFoundries; Tak Tanaka, managing director for Applied Global Services at Applied Materials; Paul Lindner, executive technology director at EV Group; and Alissa M. Fitzgerald, founder and managing member at A.M. Fitzgerald & Associates. SE: What’s happening... » read more

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