Who will win in a world where architecture and packaging are now differentiators, and where intelligence, connectivity and security are the new prerequisites.
Rambus’ Mike Noonen looks at why putting everything on a single die no longer works, what comes after Moore’s Law, and what the new business model looks like for chipmakers.
30 facilities planned, including 10/7nm processes, but trade war and economic factors could slow progress.
Applied Materials’ VP looks at what’s next for semiconductor manufacturing and the impact of variation, new materials and different architectures.
Researchers digging into ways around the von Neumann bottleneck.
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Optimizing complex chips requires decisions about overall system architecture, and memory is a key variable.
Semiconductor devices face many hazards before and after manufacturing that can cause them to fail prematurely.
Chips will cost more to design and manufacture even without pushing to the latest node, but that’s not the whole story.
This will go down as a good year for the semiconductor industry, where new markets and innovation were both necessary and rewarded.
Experts at the Table, Part 1: Impact on the supply chain, who’s using advanced packaging, and the cost of packaging versus device scaling.
Companies battle it out to get artificial intelligence to the edge using various chip architectures as their weapons of choice.
Technology adds more granularity, but starting point for design shifts as architectures cope with greater volumes of data.
Bulk CMOS, FD-SOI and finFETs all on tap as big players vie for differentiation. But where will chipmakers go after 28nm?
30 facilities planned, including 10/7nm processes, but trade war and economic factors could slow progress.
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OK, sure.
But, the time a wafer spends in the FAB has not changed. The nature of building a complex part is still limited by a system with a 5-10 month lead time from wafer start to finished product.
Come up with a way to JIT the inventory, and we can both get rich. That is the key to market risk and the reason not to have too many part numbers in fab at one time.