Podcast EP265: The History of Moore’s Law and What Lies Ahead with Intel’s Mr. Transistor

Dan is joined by Dr. Tahir Ghani, Intel senior fellow and director of process pathfinding in Intel’s Technology Research Group. Tahir has a 30-year career at Intel working on many innovations, including strained silicon, high-K metal gate devices, FinFETs, RibbonFETs, and backside power delivery (BSPD), among others. He has filed more than 1,000 patents over his career at Intel and was honored as Intel’s 2022 Inventor of the Year. He has the nickname of “Mr. Transistor” since he’s passionate about keeping Moore’s Law alive.

In this very broad discussion, Tahir outlines the innovations over the past 60 years of Moore’s Law and how these advances will pave the way to a trillion transistor device in this decade. Tahir explains how transistor scaling, interconnect advances, chiplet-based design and advanced packaging all work together to keep Moore’s Law scaling alive and continue to deliver exponential increases in innovation.

Tahir will present an invited paper at a special session of the upcoming 70th IEDM called The Incredible Shrinking Transistor – Shattering Perceived Barriers and Forging Ahead. IEDM will be held from December 7-11, 2024 in San Francisco.  You can learn more about IEDM and register to attend here. His presentation will be Tuesday, December 10 at 2:20 PM. Tahir also reviews several other significant Intel papers that will be presented at IEDM.

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Podcast EP265: The History of Moore's Law and What Lies Ahead with Intel's Mr. Transistor

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