Friday, November 01, 2013

Moore's Law: It's Complicated

The Status of Moore's Law: It's Complicated - IEEE Spectrum:
"as chip foundries prepare to roll out 14-nm and 16-nm chips, custom-made for smartphone makers and other customers, that will be no denser than the previous 20-nm generation. 
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simple transistor scaling reached a limit in the early 2000s:
Making a transistor smaller 
no longer meant it would be faster or less power hungry. So Intel, followed by others, introduced new technologies to help boost transistor performance. 

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The semiconductor industry pulled in revenues of US $300 billion in 2012. "

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