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Arm Sizes Up Moore's Law
Memory wall, cost per transistor tackled
By Rick Merritt, Eetimes, SAN JOSE, Calif, Dec. 07, 2015 –
It's getting harder and more costly to make chips smaller and faster, but there is still hope for advancing Moore's Law, according to a keynote at the annual International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in Washington D.C. this week. In a broad and balanced talk, a senior researcher at Arm detailed the variety of techniques and challenges ahead.
"The semiconductor industry will need to push equivalent Moore's Law scaling through a broadening set of fronts...in an 'all-of-the-above' effort [that] will include more technology complexity, investment in technology-design optimizations, and ultimately technology-system optimizations," Greg Yeric of Arm Research in Austin wrote in an IEDM paper.