Nvidia calls for move to 450mm wafers
Rick Merritt, EETimes
4/12/2012 4:17 PM EDT
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – A top Nvidia engineer is calling for a move to 450mm wafers as one part of the solution to the growing complexity, cost and time-to-market challenges in chip design.
A diverse host of new technologies and methods will be needed to keep the industry on track to profitably deliver a trillion-transistor device by the end of the decade, said Sameer Halepete, vice president of VLSI engineering at Nvidia.
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