Despite several glitches along the way, the semiconductor industry has managed to move down the process technology curve as defined by Moore’s Law. But going forward, the industry will require new breakthroughs in chip-scaling and EDA technology to enable the next wave of systems over the next decade, according to a technologist from ARM Ltd.
During and after a keynote address at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in San Francisco on Tuesday (June 5), Mike Muller, chief technology officer at ARM, also addressed a range of other topics, including the state of the foundry industry, the demise of PCs, and, of course, the mobile revolution based on ARM’s technology.
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