• ARM Pioneer Sophie Wilson Also Thinks Moore’s Law Coming to an End

    April 13, 2017

    Intel might have its own thoughts about the trajectory of Moore’s Law, but many leaders in the industry have views that variate slightly from the tick-tock we keep hearing about.

    Sophie Wilson, designer of the original Acorn Micro-Computer in the 1970s and later developer of the instruction set for ARM’s low-power processors that have come to dominate the mobile device world has such thoughts. And when Wilson talks about processors and the processor industry, people listen.

    Wilson’s message is essentially that Moore’s Law, which has been the driving force behind chip development in particular and the computer industry …

    Read more

  • Intel Vigorously Defends Chip Innovation Progress

    March 29, 2017

    With absolute dominance in datacenter and desktop compute, considerable sway in datacenter storage, a growing presence in networking, and profit margins that are the envy of the manufacturing and tech sectors alike, it is not a surprise that companies are gunning for Intel. They all talk about how Moore’s Law is dead and how that removes a significant advantage for the world’s largest – and most profitable – chip maker.

    After years of this, the top brass in Intel’s Technology and Manufacturing Group as well as its former chief financial officer, who is now in charge of its manufacturing, operations, …

    Read more

  • Memory And Logic In A Post Moore’s Law World

    March 22, 2017

    The future of Moore’s Law has become a topic of hot debate in recent years, as the challenge of continually shrinking transistors and other components has grown.

    Intel, AMD, IBM, and others continue to drive the development of smaller electronic components as a way of ensuring advancements in compute performance while driving down the cost of that compute. Processors from Intel and others are moving now from 14 nanometer processes down to 10 nanometers, with plans to continue onto 7 nanometers and smaller.

    For more than a decade, Intel had relied on a tick-tock manufacturing schedule to keep up with …

    Read more

  • Alchemy Can’t Save Moore’s Law

    June 24, 2016

    We don’t have a Moore’s Law problem so much as we have a materials science or alchemy problem. If you believe in materials science, what seems abundantly clear in listening to so many discussions about the end of scale for chip manufacturing processes is that, for whatever reason, the industry as a whole has not done enough investing to discover the new materials that will allow us to enhance or move beyond CMOS chip technology.

    The only logical conclusion is that people must actually believe in alchemy, that some kind of magic is going to save the day and allow …

    Read more

  • More than Moore: IEEE Set to Standardize on Uncertainty

    May 9, 2016

    Several decades ago, Gordon Moore made it far simpler to create technology roadmaps along the lines of processor capabilities, but as his namesake law begins to slow on the rails, the IEEE is stepping in to create a new, albeit more diverse roadmap for future systems.

    The organization has launched a new effort to identify and trace the course of what follows Moore’s Law with the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS), which will take a workload focused view of the mixed landscape and the systems that will be required. In other words, instead of pegging a …

    Read more

  • Intel’s Own Supercomputer Powers Moore’s Law Life Support

    November 26, 2015

    Moore’s Law might be winding down in observable ways, but that realization will not keep Intel from putting its maintenance on the front burner. It has been throwing a lot of core hours behind the engineering effort for the forthcoming 10 nanometer process, and is burning a lot of compute on solving the challenges that lie ahead on the path to 5 nanometers.

    Although the company’s CEO, Brian Krzanich, has publicly stated that Moore’s Law is slowing in the wake of the company’s decision to push back availability on their ten nanometer chips by six months this summer, some at …

    Read more

Mellanox

The Next Platform Weekly

Tap the stack to painlessly subscribe for a weekly email from The Next Platform, featuring highlights, analysis, and stories from the week directly from us to your inbox with nothing in between.