MediaTek head foresees two more generations of Moore's Law

Posted on Wednesday, November 22 2017 @ 10:36 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
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Will chips continue to scale or will physical barriers be hit in the near future? Tsai Ming-kai, the chairman of fabless chip designer MediaTek, said this week that he foresees Moore's Law will apply to two more generations.

In a November 21 talk with Alibaba's chief technology officer Wang Jian, Ming-kai remarked process technology may hit bottlenecks after moving to the 3nm node.
Tsai made the comments in a November 21 talk with Alibaba's chief technology officer Wang Jian. He said that along with the ever-advancing computing technologies and performance and the ever-expanding data flow, new business opportunities associated with solving human problems through data applications will emerge anytime and anywhere for those pursuing innovations and tech startups.
More at DigiTimes. This does't mean we'll no longer see performance improvements, but continuing on the same pace as in the past is getting harder and harder.


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