https://blog.hackster.io/death-of-moores-law-makes-open-hardware-possible-7aaad86e47bf
Bunnie argued that while Moore’s Law held if you started developing a project at the point when a vendor released their silicon it would be obsolescent even before you managed to ship it.
We may well have reached the point where our computing is “good enough.” That, at least as far as computing is concerned, we’re looking at a maturing technological base.
The RISC-V open-source architecture has been around since 2010. Things are starting to move fast for the long ignored architecture.
We’re almost in a place where we have multiple vendors producing open silicon based around the RISC-V core
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Tomi Engdahl says:
What comes after Moore’s Law?
https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2018/9/what-comes-after-moores-law?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY#
Today’s short-lived software applications and cloud services open up possibilities for more specialized processor designs
Tomi Engdahl says:
Moore’s Law Ending? No Problem
https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1334474
An Arm fellow describes, “how I learned to stop worrying and love the end of Moore’s Law.”
At CES in January 2019, Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, said what most of us in the tech business had already considered and accepted: Moore’s Law, which predicts regular increases in the computing power of silicon chips, is dead.
Today, the smallest commercially produced chips have feature sizes that are a minuscule 7 nm. As transistors get closer to atomic scale, it’s getting harder to shrink them further. Many believe that today’s most advanced transistor design, the FinFET, can’t get below 5 nm without a major rethink—and that even 5 nm may be prohibitively expensive. That means, in turn, that it’s harder to double the density of transistors on a silicon chip every 24 months, as Moore’s Law predicts.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://semiengineering.com/moore-and-more/
Tomi Engdahl says:
EDA In The Cloud
Speeding time to market at 5/3nm.
https://semiengineering.com/eda-in-the-cloud-4/
Tomi Engdahl says:
If transistors can’t get smaller, then coders have to get smarter
http://news.mit.edu/2020/mit-csail-computing-technology-after-moores-law-0605
MIT CSAIL researchers say improving computing technology after Moore’s Law will require more efficient software, new algorithms, and specialized hardware.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Maximizing Value Post-Moore’s Law
https://semiengineering.com/maximizing-value-post-moores-law/
The value of a semiconductor can be difficult to measure because it involves costs and benefits over time. As market segments feel different pressures, maximizing value is going in several directions.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Moore’s Law is coming to an end, but researchers have already laid out plans for what comes next..
IBM’s $3-Billion Research Project Has Kept Computing Moving Forward
https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/nanotechnology/ibms-3billion-research-project-has-kept-computing-moving-forward
Back in 2014, under the looming shadow of the end of Moore’s Law, IBM embarked on an ambitious, US $3 billion project dubbed “7-nm and Beyond”. The bold aim of that five-year research project was to see how computing would continue into the future as the physics of decreasing chip dimensions conspired against it.
Six years later, Moore’s Law isn’t much of a law anymore.
Although the chip industry may not feel as constrained by Moore’s Law as it has in the past, the “7-nm and Beyond” project has delivered important innovations even while some chip manufacturers have seemingly thrown up their hands in frustration at various points in recent years.
One example of this frustration was the decision two years ago by GlobalFoundries to suspend its 7-nanometer chip development.
Of course, EUV has enabled 7-nm nodes, but the aim of IBM was to look beyond that. IBM believes that the foundational element of chips to enable the scaling beyond FinFET will be the nanosheet transistor, which some have suggested may even be the last step in Moore’s Law.
The nanosheet looks to be the replacement to the FinFET architecture, and is expected to make possible the transition from the 7-nm and 5-nm nodes to the 3-nm node.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Moore’s Law Isn’t Slowing down — Just Ask System Companies
https://www.eetimes.com/moores-law-isnt-slowing-down-just-ask-system-companies/
Moore’s Law, the tenet that the number of transistors on a chip will double every 18-24 months, has driven the electronics industry for decades. Today, there’s no denying that Moore’s Law is showing its age, with some semiconductor industry leaders going so far as to rewrite its definition. In this era of More-than-Moore, chipmakers are turning to new materials, 3D wafer stacking and heterogeneous integration – die with different manufacturing process nodes and technologies integrated within a single package – to keep driving the pace of advancement.
Tomi Engdahl says:
IBM’s $3-Billion Research Project Has Kept Computing Moving Forward
With IBM’s “7-nm and Beyond” research initiative completed, it’s time to assess how its innovations have helped chipmakers keep up with the demands of Moore’s Law
https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/nanotechnology/ibms-3billion-research-project-has-kept-computing-moving-forward
Tomi Engdahl says:
Challenges For A Post-Moore’s Law World
https://semiengineering.com/challenges-for-a-post-moores-law-world/
More customization and a different message for the chip industry.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Single-Chip Processors Have Reached Their Limits Announcements from Apple and Nvidia prove that chiplets are the future, but interconnects remain a battleground
https://spectrum.ieee.org/single-chip-processors-have-reached-their-limits?share_id=6987301
Apple once again surprised enthusiasts and analysts with its announcement of the M1 Ultra, a variant of the M1 Max that effectively fuses two chips into one. The result is a dual-chip design viewed by software as a single piece of silicon. Nvidia delivered similar news at the GPU Technology Conference 2022, where CEO Jensen Huang announced that the company will fuse two of the company’s new Grace CPU processors into a single “Superchip.”
These announcements target different markets. Apple has its sights set on the consumer and professional workstation world, while Nvidia intends to compete in high-performance computing. Yet the divergence in purpose only underscores the broad challenges rapidly bringing the era of monolithic chip design to an end.