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Think Pieces
Read about SuVolta’s thoughts on industry and technology challenges. Below you’ll find links to contributed articles, conference papers and more.
How Will the Chip Wars be Won? - Part 1
7 February 2012
How Will the Chip Wars be Won? - Part 2
16 February 2012
As silicon CMOS enters its fifth decade, the industry once again finds itself at a crossroads. At this juncture, the future of CMOS scaling will be defined not only by fundamental device architecture and materials innovations but also the evolving chip landscape. New alliances, players and market segments with radically different cost structures will play a role in determining the future course of the semiconductor industry and the evolution of the semiconductor fabrication process.
Part 1 of this article highlights the emerging importance of the mobile SoC and its impact on the industry landscape and the continued evolution of Moore’s Law.
Part 2 discusses why the new landscape favors an open foundry and design ecosystem and identifies trends that are likely to define the semiconductor industry over the next decade.
Advanced Channel Engineering Achieving Aggressive Reduction of VT Variation for Ultra-Low-Power Applications
Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd. and SuVolta, Inc. joint paper
2011 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), December 7, 2011
To read the IEDM paper, click here.
To view the IEDM presentation, click here.
Advanced Transistor Technology
ARM TechCon Virtual Event
Archive accessible from 17 November 2011 - 17 May 2012
This session compares FinFET, SOI, and planar bulk technologies at the 22nm node and below. In this talk, Dr. Scott Thompson provides an overview of the technologies, evaluates the advantages and limitations of each, and looks at each technology’s applicability for SoC implementation.
Low Transistor Variability - The Key to Energy Efficient ICs
2nd Berkeley Symposium of Energy Efficient Electronic Systems
3 November 2011
Leakage – It's Worse Than you Think
2 May 2011
As the world uses more and more mobile electronic products, controlling power consumption is the primary limiter of scaling semiconductor process technologies and adding features to integrated circuits.
