Chipmakers Test Ferroelectrics as a Route to Ultralow-Power Chips

Re:Chipmakers Test Ferroelectrics as a Route to Ultralow-Pow... by zitterbewegung on Friday March 16, 2018 @03:36PM (#16603417)

Probably not since there aren't enough competitors left to actually invest in chips. If you don't hear Intel, TSMC or Global Foundaries putting R&D into something then you have the way out there research of academia.

Maybe a random startup or two are investigating this but those are academics that figured something out from a grant and are attempting to make a company out of it. The road to beating silicon is a long one.

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Re:Chipmakers Test Ferroelectrics as a Route to Ultralow-Pow... by teemwerk on Friday March 16, 2018 @07:30PM (#16604733)

TI and Cypress through Ramtron has done quite a bit of work incorporating ferroelectric materials into CMOS processes and such for FeRAMs mostly. Obviously RAMs are not transistors but the work is certainly relevant. Like the article says, the large feature size for ferroelectrics has mostly been the limitation for ferroelectric applications.

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