tag: Moore’s Law

No Road, No Roadmap
By Atrenta - 06 Dec, 2012 - Comments: 0

Happy holidays! It’s almost that time of year. Well-wishing and celebration are customary around now. I’ll get to that in a moment. But so are retrospectives and prognostication. Let’s focus on those for a moment. What has 2012 brought us, and what lies ahead? While there have been many technology advances and exciting new product introductions this past year, one fact shines through a... » read more

Remaking The Playing Field
By Ed Sperling - 30 Nov, 2012 - Comments: 0

Just a week ago the battle lines looked very well defined. ARM was fighting Intel on power, and Intel was fighting ARM on performance. One week later, ARM has cemented a deal with AMD, which will use its cores in future processors running Microsoft software. Imagination Technologies is buying MIPS, which presumably it will use to go after both ARM and Intel. And Intel has a stake in Imaginat... » read more

Facing Up To RC Delay
By Ed Sperling - 15 Nov, 2012 - Comments: 0

y Ed Sperling Resistance and capacitance delays have always been someone else’s problem to solve at some fuzzy process node in the future, and for the most part manufacturers and equipment makers have done a wizard-like job of making this problem go away. They can’t make it disappear anymore, though, and beginning at 14nm and beyond RC delay is becoming more than just an annoyance. The ... » read more

Spoiled By Moore’s Law
By Ed Sperling - 08 Nov, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Over the past 20 years, lithium ion has emerged as the predominant battery technology. While there are a few variants, it seems that for everything from smartphones to automobiles, the same basic technology is being used. Many other technologies that have come and gone over the years—nickel cadmium, nickel metal hydride come to mind in the recent past, but they ar... » read more

Materials, Architectures And Gordon Moore
By Ed Sperling - 21 Sep, 2012 - Comments: 0

Shrinking features on bulk CMOS using planar transistors has turned the semiconductor industry from a startup industry to one of the most efficient and robust industries in the world. Each new process node increases the number of chips that can be cut out of a single wafer, literally defining economies of scale. Gordon Moore defined the direction, which certainly created a long list of chall... » read more

Experts At The Table: IC Manufacturing Challenges
By Ed Sperling - 20 Sep, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Mark LaPedus Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design sat down to discuss future manufacturing challenges with Carlos Mazure, chief technical officer at Soitec; Jeff Hebb, vice president of laser product marketing at Ultratech; Markus Wimplinger, corporate technology development and IP director at EV Group; and Girish Dixit, vice president of the customer integration center and process inte... » read more

The Easy Stuff Is Over
By Ed Sperling - 09 Aug, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Doomsayers have been predicting the end of Moore’s Law for the better part of a decade. While it appears that it will still remain viable for some companies—Intel and IBM already are looking into single digits of nanometers and researchers speculating about picometer designs—for most companies the race is over. Progress will still be made in moving SoCs from one node to... » read more

Revisiting Moore’s Law
By Ed Sperling - 09 Aug, 2012 - Comments: 0

Moore’s Law was predicted to end at 1 micron. It was predicted to die off twice by Gordon Moore himself. And it has vacillated between 18 and 24 months on at least a couple of occasions since it was first introduced in 1965. From a technology perspective, there is no reason to assume it will ever die. It has gone from microns to nanometers and it can continue well into the picometer range.... » read more

Moore’s Legacy
By Ed Sperling - 08 Aug, 2012 - Comments: 0

Low-Power High-Performance Engineering talks with MIPS' Mark Throndson, product marketing director, and Ranganathan "Suds" Sudhakar, chief architect, about Moore's Law, multicore chips, software, coherency and the insatiable global demand for speed. [youtube vid=VfvfYSkPpcs] » read more

Investment Options
By Ed Sperling - 31 Jul, 2012 - Comments: 0

It's clear that something fundamental has changed in the semiconductor manufacturing industry. What's less clear is how this will play out over the long term. Intel's agreement to invest more than $4 billion in ASML to ensure the continued development of EUV and 450mm wafer technology is more than just a one-off deal. It's a very public recognition that the astronomical cost of design and ma... » read more

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