AMD: No exotic materials in CPUs for another decade

Another interesting snippet from AMD's presentation at the Rice Oil and Gas HPC conference is that the company doesn't expect a move away from silicon for at least 7-10 years. Forrest Norrod, VP of AMD's datacenter group, said graphene processors or other exotic materials are unlikely to replace silicon in the near future as there's a clear silicon-based path down to about 3nm geometry:

In response to the silicon transition question from the audience at the Rice Oil and Gas HPC conference in Houston, Norrod says:

“The simple answer to the question is over the next 7 – 10 years… no, I don’t see that. I think there’s a clear path on using traditional silicon down to about 3nm geometry. So another couple of process nodes, which we’ll get to in about 5 or 6 years. I think after that it gets a little fuzzier, obviously we’ve got the dice roll on quantum off to the side.”

There was also a question about quantum computing. Norrod answered that quantum will mature in 10 to 100 years, with the 20-30 year timeframe being the most probable.

Via: PCGamesN