AMD claims 20nm transition signals the end of Moore's Law
AMD claims that the delay in transitioning from 28nm to 20nm highlights the beginning of the end for Moore's Law.
AMD was one of the first consumer semiconductor vendors to make use of TSMC's 28nm process node with its Radeon HD 7000 series graphics cards, but like every chip vendor it is looking to future process nodes to help it increase performance. The firm told The INQUIRER the time taken to transition to 20nm signals the beginning of the end for Moore's Law.
Famed Intel co-founder and electronics engineer Gordon Moore predicted that total the number of transistors would double every two years. He also predicted that the 'law' would not continue to apply for as long as it has. It was professor Carver Mead at Caltech that coined the term Moore's Law, and now one of Mead's students, John Gustafson, chief graphics product architect at AMD, has said that Moore's Law is ending because it actually refers to a doubling of transistors that are economically viable to produce.
