The keeper of Moore’s Law

By Nick Flaherty, eeNews Europe (December 14, 2024)

IEDM is always eye opening for the advances of device technology. The 2024 meeting in San Francisco this week has not only shown the latest 2nm CMOS process technologies, but way beyond.

TSMC is discussing the technology for its A16 node at the end of 2026, while European researchers at imec have been showing, and making, the components for a standard cell with stacked CFET nanosheet transistors for A7 in the early 2030s.

While there used to be talk of the ‘end of Moore’s Law’ (and certainly the end of Dennard scaling) Intel has been pushing back.

“We continue to be the stewards of Moore’s Law for the industry,” said Sanjay Natarajan, SVP & GM of the Intel Technology Research Group, the newly renamed Components Research group.  “We are releasing groundbreaking new technology,” he said. “We have in my opinion perhaps the strongest research development pipeline in the industry.”

He points to the combination of device technology, interconnect and packaging as vital to driving the technology forward.

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