By Nicolas Mokhoff
“Semiconductor research is coming up short on new ideas to extend Moore’s Law of consistently packing more transistors on a chip. Innovations in emerging technologies need to be accelerated.
That was Pushkar Apte’s claim at the International Electron Devices Meeting here as some 1200 researchers gathered to present and take in the latest technology nuances of a 40- to 50-year technology. Everything has a life cycle and we have had a good ride on the crest of the silicon wave,” said Apte, vice president of technology programs at SIA, in his talk here. Now the industry needs to buckle down and become part of a larger whole than itself. “We need a virtual multi-university inter-disciplinary ecosystem that will let innovation flourish wherever this entity takes us.”
