{"id":132765,"date":"2021-12-20T15:23:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T23:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/new-semiconductor-design-could-extend-moores-law"},"modified":"2021-12-20T15:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T23:23:18","slug":"new-semiconductor-design-could-extend-moores-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/new-semiconductor-design-could-extend-moores-law","title":{"rendered":"New semiconductor design could extend Moore\u2019s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-semiconductor-design-could-extend-moores-law2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s technology announcement is about challenging convention and rethinking how we continue to advance society and deliver new innovations that improve life, business and reduce our environmental impact,\u201d said Dr. Mukesh Khare, Vice President of Hybrid Cloud and Systems, IBM Research. \u201cGiven the constraints the industry is currently facing along multiple fronts, IBM and Samsung are demonstrating our commitment to joint innovation in semiconductor design and a shared pursuit of what we call \u2018hard tech.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moore\u2019s Law \u2013 an ongoing trend that shows the number of transistors on a computer chip <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuretimeline.net\/data-trends\/9.htm\" target=\"_blank\">doubling every two years or so<\/a> \u2013 is now approaching what are considered fundamental barriers. Simply put, as more and more transistors are crammed into a finite area, engineers are running out of space.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, transistors have been built to lie flat upon the surface of a semiconductor, with the electric current flowing laterally, or side-to-side, through them. Vertical Transport Field Effect Transistors (VTFET), by contrast, are built perpendicular to the surface of the chip with a vertical, or up-and-down, current flow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToday\u2019s technology announcement is about challenging convention and rethinking how we continue to advance society and deliver new innovations that improve life, business and reduce our environmental impact,\u201d said Dr. Mukesh Khare, Vice President of Hybrid Cloud and Systems, IBM Research. \u201cGiven the constraints the industry is currently facing along multiple fronts, IBM and Samsung [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}