ARM Pitches Tri-gate Transistors for 20nm and Beyond
Pelloie explains that it is "increasingly difficult to control the vertical electric field between the gate and the substrate while maintaining the channel depletion below threshold and then minimize the leakage current" when shrinking transistors. FinFETs are considered a solution to solve this problem. The engineer wrote that FiNFETs could be used on either bulk or SOI wafers. However, ARM still has work to do and especially investigate the scalability of this technology. "However, 3D devices are clearly on the road for sub-20nm nodes … and FinFET’s time may finally be here," Pelloie wrote.
FinFET history goes back to a December 2000 paper published in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices entitled "FinFET - A Self-Aligned Double Gate MOSFET Scalable to 20 nm". Intel was first to move to tri-gates and take this technology into mass-production, but was accused of having switched to 3D transistors only because it was not able to scale its SRAMs, which the company traditionally uses to unveil a manufacturing process, from 32 nm to 22 nm. Intel's tri-gate technology was announced back in May of this year. Intel hopes that tri-gate technology will keep up with Moore's Law and especially drive low-voltage and low-power features.
We are all quick to dismiss this CPU and that storage device as too slow, too expensive and too whatever. But we have come a long way from the ZX-81 and C64 in a relatively short period of time.
So, given a 200 year time span, what will we be dealing with, and still dismissing as too slow, expensive and what have you.
I wish time travel was more affordable so I could have a look :-)
We are all quick to dismiss this CPU and that storage device as too slow, too expensive and too whatever. But we have come a long way from the ZX-81 and C64 in a relatively short period of time.
So, given a 200 year time span, what will we be dealing with, and still dismissing as too slow, expensive and what have you.
I wish time travel was more affordable so I could have a look :-)
It might happen in the next 50 years or less.
This doesn't mean we won't produce chips any more,
but that their quality will be more or less the same:
certainly not twice smaller and faster every 3 years.
Mass production of chips based on a completely different techno are still science fiction today.
@jujuvivi
I think we will hit the wall in 20-25 years before moving on so some other type of computing technology (they are talking about hitting the 8-10nm wall within 10 years). After that it will become about 3D chip design (stacked/layered chips), better design, more efficient software, and moving on to quantum computing or some other technology yet to be invented.
What I think is really crazy/wierd about technology is that my son will likely never have a traditional desktop of his own (or at least not need to), and that kids who are currently computer illiterate will never need to become literate because everything will move to personal sized devices using server/cloud services where all that matters is bandwidth and screen size/quality.
The future is wierd, but it is neat to see where ARM and x86 take us.
Crap, what did you hear?? Are we going to elect another brain dead pot fiend Republican as President... Again...
We've already had crackhead and snake in the grass/false hope prezies. I think pot is the least of our worries.
I never understood why people think superior robots that can mass produce 100x more efficient robots than ourselves would ever have any interest in enslaving mankind.
You are correct. It would require too many resources to keep us alive. Yes sir, our kind will all be in the ground by then.
My hunch is that the geniuses of today are smarter than the geniuses of 500 years ago, but that the stupid people of today are stupider than the stupid people of 500 years ago. There will come a day of reckoning, so to speak. A day when humans will start to discard the less intelligent individuals. The more tasks that can be done by machines, the less demand there is for average and below average human beings.
And dareren it's simple, you're under the assumption that robots won't feel. If they don't feel then it will end up being some logic reasoning as in protecting mankind from itself, and the only way to do that is to enslave them and keep them under control. If they feel it maybe for the simple reason of revenge.
But really by the time the machine wars happen the zombie apocalypse will happen sitting us back for another 1000 years.
Stupid people breed. You need to watch Idiocracy - if the machines don't take over, THAT is our future.
Intel: "All your FinFETs are belong to us!"
if Wikipedia still exists, I'd be willing to learn 200 years a computer history second fathom what they were talking about.
by the time that we can have an computer overlord, we would also have an EMP technology strong enough to whiteboard computer, outside of the nuclear blast.
What would be more interesting, wiping out an entire race of people, or enslaving them breaking their wills to the point don't even resist anymore. Sure they would kill at first, to cull the numbers,but after that break our wills.
So all and all, there will always be way more stupid people than smart people, smart people use condoms.
FYI, it's just fantasy that we want robots to enslave us, as UFOs to do the same. This would not happen, either they would not even waste their time with genocide or bother to come to this rock. If any species can do FTL or manage to get to our planet, we are nothing to them, they could eradicate us in a blink of an eye.
ARM will be a more serious competitor than AMD in the coming months.
Right..... or for that matter, why would they even stay on Earth? They could move their whole civilization to Mars, for example, and leave the Monkeys behind. They don't need our environment to exist.
LOL this actually makes a ton of sense, if robots are any indicative of the direction of today's tech, the extreme cold of Mars would only help them be "super" robots as they would be able to overclock themselves without massive cooling devices! Shoot they could even build massive nuclear power plants all over Mars and over a thousand years actually make it hospitable due to accidentally manufacturing an ozone! ..... Thats when the monkey resistance begins and we take over Mars! (ok, sci-fi mode off)