Single-chip processors have reached their limits

Re:Single-chip processors have reached their limits by adhesive_wombat on Monday April 04, 2022 @05:03PM (#30911898)

If that rabbit hole appeals, the ITRS reports (now called IRDS[2]) are very good mid-level, year-by-year summary of the state of the art in chipmaking, including upcoming challenges and future directions.

> Being able to print something in nanometers is an overlooked technical achievement for human manufacturing.

IMO, a semiconductor fab probably is the highest human achievement in terms of process engineering. Not only do you "print" nanometric devices, you do it continuously, in a multi-month pipelined system and sell the results for as little as under a penny (micros, and even the biggest baddest CPUs are "only" a thousand pounds, far less than any other item with literally a billion functional designed features on it).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Technology_Roadm...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Roadmap_for_Devi...

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Re:Single-chip processors have reached their limits by RugnirViking on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @07:20AM (#30917587)

is it the same reports accessed by the process in https://irds.ieee.org/home/how-to-download-irds ?

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Re:Single-chip processors have reached their limits by adhesive_wombat on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @08:32AM (#30918170)

For IRDS, yes.

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