"I don't see the end of Moore's Law for at least 10 years," Bohr said. He added that he believes Intel will continue to employ its "tick tock" model—where the company introduces a new architecture one year and follows with a move to a new process node the next—for the foreseeable future.
Responding to an audience question during a Q&A with a group of Intel Fellows at IDF, Bohr said he doesn't accept the conventional wisdom that CMOS scaling must eventually hit a wall. But he added that scaling probably will run out of steam at some point.
Responding to another question at the same Q+A, Bohr said Intel is studying ways to implement 3-D chip stacking in package, but sounded skeptical about the chances of the firm implementing it. "Having the technology and having a cost effective solution are two different things," Bohr said. "We can do 3-D chip stacking, but I think the added cost is still a bottleneck."
Intel sees at least 10 more years of scaling
Posted on Thursday, September 13 2012 @ 14:43 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck