October 2, 2014, ARMTechCon, Santa Clara, CA—Erica Kochi, director of innovation at UNICEF, talked about the need for new technologies that will change lives. The challenges are to have the technologies be appropriate to the locale, a dimension of the problem that was not understood until many failures. One postulate is that doing good is…
August 26, 2013, Hot Chips Conference, Stanford, CA—Robert Colwell, director of the Microsystems technology office at DARPA and former Intel manager, sees the end of Dennard scaling within the next decade, resulting in Moore’s Law becoming a purely economic function. The coming end of Moore’s Law is something that the industry looks at like watching…
July 8, 2013, Semicon West, San Francisco—Paul Farrar from the Global 450 Consortium described the efforts towards enabling the semiconductor industry to move to 450 mm wafers. The rationale for the change is to double the number of dice on a wafer without needing a new process node. The consortium has 5 key members, Intel,…