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As far as i can tell this has no relation to moore's law. Moore's law currently suffer mostly due to:limits of manufacturing small things, and mostly because of
by petra 10y ago
As far as i can tell this has no relation to moore's law. Moore's law currently suffer mostly due to:limits of manufacturing small things, and mostly because of energy consumption and delay of wires. Without solving those, it would be hard to offer big improvements.
And GaN can't solve those afaik.
- jacquesm 10y agoFor a given size transistor the GaN element will switch considerably faster than the Silicon equivalent. We have an enormous amount of knowledge about the Silicon based process though and it's a bit like trying to come up with a better combustion engine: it may not be the best material to begin with but it will be very hard to catch up with 50 years of materials science and process technology on Silicon. It's a huge head-start, but I'm happy that people are looking at alternatives to Silicon. Bismuth based compounds are interesting as well.
- petra 10y agoSure it's great that people research things. >> For a given size transistor the GaN element will switch considerably faster than the Silicon equivalent. Most of the delay today is because of wires, not transistors. See figure 1 at http://www.monolithic3d.com/blog/previous/3 http://www.monolithic3d.com/blog/previous/3 .
- marcosdumay 10y agoEverything else being equal, faster switching means lower power consumption for CMOS.