Return of the multichip One of the predictions made by Gordon Moore in 1975 during an IEDM keynote where he refined the ideas that gave rise to Mooreâs Law was that chips would get bigger pretty quickly and that this growth would be a major contributor to scaling.
He only projected as far as 1980 but his estimates pointed to die area at least doubling in five years: hitting 60 square millimetres by that time. In the mid-2000s, Intel did its best to keep up with the extrapolation courtesy of its reticle-busting Itanium processors that clocked in at almost 700sq mm. With just a handful of customers, it was clear that most of the industry was happier with smaller devices and using more of them.
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The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is likely to face an inventory correction in the first half of next year believes Daiwa Capital Markets. This correction had first been projected for the second quarter of this year, then postponed to the second half and now the investment research firm has further moved it ahead to 2022. As a result, Daiwa has reduced TSMC s profit estimate by 10% but at the same time increased the chipmaker s price target to 580 Yuan from an earlier 550 Yuan - reflecting is confidence in the long-term prospects of Taiwan s premium chipmaker.
TSMC s Hold Rating Reiterated By Daiwa As Firm Forecasts Chip Industry Revenue Shrinkage For 2022
A new design of fully integrated isolated power chips achieves both high peak transformation efficiency and power density, providing a new solution for the design of isolated power chip.
In a silicon-compatible parallel to fibre optics, MIT is using polymer-based ribbon waveguides to carry data between chips at 105Gbit/s - waveguide dimensi