Executive Briefing: The End Of CMOS?


Steve Longoria, senior vice president of Soitec, talks with System-Level Design about why silicon on insulator has suddenly become essential to semiconductor manufacturing and what it will mean for Moore's Law. [youtube vid=kNl1RSEpqKc] » read more

A Delicate Balancing Act


ver since the patent for complementary metal oxide semiconductors was awarded to Frank Wanlass at Fairchild in 1967, CMOS has proved to be one of the most durable technologies in electronics history. It has powered devices worth trillions of dollars in sales, been the recipient of an estimated $600 billion in R&D, and become the basis of some of the most refined manufacturing processes in h... » read more

Grappling With Graphene


By Brian Fuller Silicon CMOS is a tough act to follow. The workhorse building block for the world’s electronics has been delivering for system designers for a half century. Despite hand-wringing over its apparent scalability limits, it shows only vague signs of slowing down. For nearly as many years, it seems, the next great material or alternative to silicon CMOS has popped into the indu... » read more

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