SEMICON West Keynote Speech Outlines Long-Term Challenges and Opportunities
for Semiconductor Industry
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- In a keynote speech today at
SEMICON West, Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) (TI) executive and SIA
representative to the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors
(ITRS) Roadmap Committee, Dr. Bob Doering, will discuss critical issues facing
the industry and provide a long range outlook on semiconductor technology
development. Ongoing discussions across ITRS working groups, including
feedback from its public conference yesterday, shaped the speech that will
emphasize the growing CMOS scaling challenges and updated ITRS targets.
"The 2005 ITRS roadmap proposal is significantly more aggressive than
previous versions on several key scaling parameters," Doering said. "However,
the ITRS is also entering a new era as the industry begins to address the
theoretical limits of CMOS scaling. The 2005 ITRS highlights the challenges
along the 15-year outlook and starts to examine what might come next."
Doering serves, along with Dr. Paolo Gargini of Intel, as one of the two
U.S. representatives to the ITRS International Roadmap Committee, and is a
Senior Fellow and silicon technology development strategy manager at TI.
On behalf of the ITRS, Doering will overview how and when key roadmap
parameters are targeted to evolve as the industry works to overcome the
identified barriers. While, over roughly the last 10 years, the pace of
feature scaling has been accelerated, the 2005 ITRS proposes a transition
period between now and 2010, after which essentially all critical dimensions
return to the historical average rate of .7X scaling every three years.
"The primary objective of the ITRS roadmap is to identify the key
technology challenges out to a 15-year horizon and place them in the spotlight
for industry consideration," emphasized Doering. "Our hope is that the
focused attention will influence greater collaboration and new research
initiatives to apply resources that ultimately deliver innovative, cost-
effective solutions."
Demonstrating the open philosophy that the ITRS adopted when it was
created 14 years ago, Doering will call upon SEMICON West attendees to share
opinions on how to further enhance the value of future editions of the
roadmap. For example, should the ITRS be guided by specific economic models
and cost-benefit analyses for addressing the rising challenges of CMOS scaling
and beyond? Other areas for discussion include the balance of inputs to the
roadmap, its scope, and optimizing the level of detail. The dialogue on such
topics will continue in a panel discussion following Doering's keynote
address.
For 14 years, the ITRS has helped influence industry decisions about the
technologies required to stay on the Moore's Law curve. The ITRS is sponsored
by the European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA); the Japan
Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA); the
Korean Semiconductor Industry Association (KSIA); the Semiconductor Industry
Association (SIA); and Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA).
International SEMATECH is responsible for global coordination for ITRS
activities.
Doering's keynote speech is open to all SEMICON West attendees. It is
planned for 9:00 am PDT today, followed by a panel presentation of additional
industry experts.
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