By: carop (carop.delete@this.somewhere.org), April 22, 2015 10:57 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com) on April 21, 2015 2:53 pm wrote:
> Here comes my latest article, complete with predictions for future process technology at Intel.
>
> On the eve of the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law, the future of silicon CMOS is an open question. With rising
> costs and uncertain benefits, some semiconductor companies have questioned the wisdom of pursuing further scaling.
> I predict that Intel's 10nm process technology will use Quantum Well FETs (QWFETs) with a 3D fin geometry, InGaAs
> for the NFET channel, and strained Germanium for the PFET channel, enabling lower voltage and more energy efficient
> transistors in 2016, and the rest of the industry will follow suit at the 7nm node.
>
> The full article is available at http://www.realworldtech.com/intel-10nm-qwfet/
>
> As always, post questions, comments, feedback, flames, etc. here.
>
> David
According to Victor Moroz @ Synopsys, there is no Group IV vs III-V combination champion. It is a close race with no clear winner, and the best choice depends on your chip specification. He thinks that Silicon is still the best channel material, at least for LP mobile devices.
Moroz also concluded that nobody can pull off LP at 0.5V Vdd and that in order to have 0.5V Vdd the variability has to go down ~2x which he thinks is a stretch:
http://www.avsusergroups.org/jtg_pdfs/2014_7moroz_Synopsis.pdf
> Here comes my latest article, complete with predictions for future process technology at Intel.
>
> On the eve of the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law, the future of silicon CMOS is an open question. With rising
> costs and uncertain benefits, some semiconductor companies have questioned the wisdom of pursuing further scaling.
> I predict that Intel's 10nm process technology will use Quantum Well FETs (QWFETs) with a 3D fin geometry, InGaAs
> for the NFET channel, and strained Germanium for the PFET channel, enabling lower voltage and more energy efficient
> transistors in 2016, and the rest of the industry will follow suit at the 7nm node.
>
> The full article is available at http://www.realworldtech.com/intel-10nm-qwfet/
>
> As always, post questions, comments, feedback, flames, etc. here.
>
> David
According to Victor Moroz @ Synopsys, there is no Group IV vs III-V combination champion. It is a close race with no clear winner, and the best choice depends on your chip specification. He thinks that Silicon is still the best channel material, at least for LP mobile devices.
Moroz also concluded that nobody can pull off LP at 0.5V Vdd and that in order to have 0.5V Vdd the variability has to go down ~2x which he thinks is a stretch:
http://www.avsusergroups.org/jtg_pdfs/2014_7moroz_Synopsis.pdf