Friday, June 20, 2008
VLSI 2008 conference: 4M gates per mm2 in 32nm
This cryptic message above means 4million logic gates per mm squared. Mutiply it with say 6 transistors per gate gives some 25M logic transistors per mm2. Though area eating trend belongs to wires not transistors. Say up to 2010. Then we will simply run out of avaliable 2D unit space. What is the next? Add another dimension for improvements.