Re:The coolest and scariest things coming in the chip indust...
by nvoorhies on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @04:50PM
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In the real world 6 would be more along the lines of "hardly any big custom chips".
The whole article does suffer a bit from multiple personalities. How are ASICs going to be too expensive to produce in the future if hordes of Indian engineers will be making them on $50k fabs in their garages and Moore's law will slow down enough that design complexity will no longer increase exponentially with time? Why are the big iron chips still alive if they're dead since they're 1 Billion transistor+ designs?
The whole article does suffer a bit from multiple personalities. How are ASICs going to be too expensive to produce in the future if hordes of Indian engineers will be making them on $50k fabs in their garages and Moore's law will slow down enough that design complexity will no longer increase exponentially with time? Why are the big iron chips still alive if they're dead since they're 1 Billion transistor+ designs?