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ISuppli: Gear costs to derail Moore's Law in 2014
ISuppli: Gear costs to derail Moore's Law in 2014
SAN FRANCISCO—Moore's Law, which has held as the benchmark for IC scaling for more than 40 years, will cease to drive semiconductor manufacturing after 2014, when the high cost of chip manufacturing equipment will make it economically unfeasible to do volume production of devices with feature ...
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iSuppli: Death of Moore's Law in 2014
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