April 26, 2012, GSA Silicon Summit, Mountain View, CA—Chenming Hu from UC Berkeley talked bout the revolutionary scope of multi-gate transistors. He addressed the challenges of cost, speed, and power in the next generation of devices. The biggest issue for many designs is to reduce all facets of power consumption. Scaling is at the heart…
April 26, 2012, GSA Silicon Summit, Mountain View, CA—Roawen Chen from Marvell Semiconductor moderated a panel on extending the life of CMOS. Panel members included Jim Aralis from Microsemi, Paul Boudre from Soitec, Shung Chieh from Aptina Imaging, Matt Crowley from Tabula, and Pushkar Ranade from SuVolta. Chen noted that the topic has been around…
April 26, 2012, GSA Silicon Summit, Mountain View, Ca—Joel Hartmann from ST Microelectronics talked about the need for SOI technologies. This established technology will enable innovation and influence the ecosystem in mobile, data, and consumer applications. As media converge ; TV, STB, cloud, multi-screen, apps, etc. the primary issue is power. The majority of devices…
April 26, 2012, GSA Silicon Summit, Mountain View, CA—Subramanian Iyer from IBM looked the issues to “Keeping Moore’s Law Alive” in his presentation at the Computer History Museum, a fitting place for a technology forecast. From an IDM perspective, the primary questions are: is there a problem, what to do about scaling, and what are…
April 26, 2012, GSA Silicon Summit, Mountain View, CA—Subramani Kengeri from Global Foundries acknowledged a gap between efforts and capabilities in the lab versus those in the fab. To continue working on Moore’s law requires an SOC view and more collaboration. Currently, four areas are driving improvements in silicon; interconnect, lithography, packaging, and silicon technology…