An integrated circuit at 0.25-micron design rules contains about 800 meters of wire interconnect, draining 50 percent of the power consumed by the circuit. When 0.01-micron chips emerge, they will ...

While transistors see continuous improvement, wires keep getting worse because of the smaller geometries and larger chip sizes. There are limited ways to avoid such problems, but the biggest impact ...

Moving data around is probably the least interesting aspect of system design, but it is one of three legs that defines the key performance indicators (KPI) for a system. Computation, memory, and ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. — More than 800 scientists and engineers working to solve interconnect wiring problems that are slowing development of faster, more powerful chips will gather next month at the eighth ...