Market Focus: Chip Design Alternatives

By Ann Steffora Mutschler -- 3/15/2004
Electronic News

With the number of available transistors to reach 1.8 billion by 2010 in-line with Moore’s law, it will simply not be possible to uniquely design each one.

As a result, the use of reusable IP will increase to occupy as much as 90 percent of a 65nm chip, according to Intel. Internal IP development has already given way to a merchant IP market as companies struggle to find markets for high-volume applications and amortize sky-high design and manufacturing costs.

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