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Either this article or the guy's speech perhaps both are pretty lame. No supporting facts are presented as to why he thinks the 7nm generation will be the last
by pmorici 13y ago
Either this article or the guy's speech perhaps both are pretty lame. No supporting facts are presented as to why he thinks the 7nm generation will be the last frontier. He just basically states the obvious that if there is no profit motive or the technology isn't there then it won't happen. No kidding.
The whole article reads like an appeal to authority.
Are there any factual reasons to believe this time is actually different than the past 35 years?
- marcosdumay 13y ago> No supporting facts are presented as to why he thinks the 7nm generation will be the last frontier. I don't know about his reasons, but charge carriers at doped silicon have orbitals that are typically around 10nm in diameter. (They vary with dopant density, temperature, etc, and don't have clearly determined boundaries, thus there is no hard number.)
- PhantomGremlin 13y ago> The whole article reads like an appeal to authority. You might be right. But Colwell isn't just a country rube who hitched a ride into town on the turnip truck. He's been there, done that, literally made billions of dollars in profit for Intel. I reiterate: Bob was the chief architect for a number of design teams who, *LITERALLY*, no exaggeration, generated billions of dollars in profit for Intel. You might have heard of a few of the products he architected. [1] "Authority" is frequently wrong. But this guy certainly deserves a little more respect than your flippant dismissal. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Colwell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Colwell
- pmorici 13y agoInteresting, I wonder why it doesn't say that in the article which would lend a lot more credability to it. It just talks about his position with DARPA