Comments on: Startups Abandon Moore’s Law

By: RIP Microprocessor Startups - GigaOM

RIP Microprocessor Startups - GigaOM — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:00:23 +0000

[...] Friday, April 25, 2008 at 8:00 AM PT Comments (0) I’ve been talking about the enormous amount of cash it takes to create any kind of chip company and expressing doubts about the number of startups we [...]

By: VCs Start the Year With a Whimper - GigaOM

VCs Start the Year With a Whimper - GigaOM — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:16:46 +0000

[...] as optimistic, saying it wasn’t an area that was good for early-stage investing. Given the expense and technical difficulties that come with designing chips, she’s probably wise to steer [...]

By: Extreme Makeover: Fab Edition - GigaOM

Extreme Makeover: Fab Edition - GigaOM — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:00:42 +0000

[...] old, trying to keep the costs associated with fab operations down. We’ve written about startups trying this same tack. Magnella declines to make big investments in technology at the fab that won’t pay for [...]

By: To Beat Intel, You Need to be Flush - GigaOM

To Beat Intel, You Need to be Flush - GigaOM — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:43:35 +0000

[...] a smaller and more energy efficient core. Sweet idea, but to illustrate my point about building leading-edge chips costing some serious cash, Montavlo has raised about $73 million. The money comes from New [...]

By: MEMS the Word - GigaOM

MEMS the Word - GigaOM — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:00:40 +0000

[...] cheaper to produce MEMS, because they are typically built in older fabs. But manufacturing millions of such [...]

By: Kevin Krewell

Kevin Krewell — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:13:04 +0000

Another start-up of note that jumped off the Moore’s Law treadmill is Luminary Micro. It’s building very low cost ARM microcontrollers using at least N-4 process technology. The chips are small enough that they don’t need cutting edge process and the older process is really cheap.

Some start-ups still do compete on the leading edge process, like Raza Micro, P.A. Semi, and Cavium, but the costs of funding those start-ups is very high.

By: Startupd Abandon Moore’s Law « nPost Startup Blog

Startupd Abandon Moore’s Law « nPost Startup Blog — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:02:47 +0000

[...] Abandon Moore’s Law About time. Based on this article, it sounds like people are starting to smarten up about potential returns [...]

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Top Posts « WordPress.com — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:01:31 +0000

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By: Alan Wilensky

Alan Wilensky — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:15:31 +0000

For processors, the tech press and analysts all focus on Moore...blah blah double. Blah blah Physics. But if you speak to the new, young minds that are coming up in todays academic research kitchens, the new frontier might not be gate density or Moore at all - it's the architecture.

The CPU industry has been captive to the register, program counter, load/store architecture since...well, the beginning. Any innovations that came later, as alternatives (some actually based in very old ideas), they were swept aside by the juggernaut that was the silicon boom of the 89's and 90's.

Liberating computing from these legacy load/store architectures will require small innovative teams to create new, non-register based systems and the software and systems architecture to match.

Then we shall see how Moore predominates in a world where the sheer number of gates is the controlling performance factor.

Quantum? Maybe, but I see a more conventional, bipolar or MOS based future, just with a new type of program operand and data model.

By: prophet

prophet — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:55:45 +0000

You are right Nima.

By: free market research company

free market research company — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:22:12 +0000

electronic industry has one gear and that is reverse regardless of Moore’s law

By: Nima Negahban

Nima Negahban — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:26:07 +0000

Being a startup in the electronics industry is grueling.

The best was the line "Ubicom, a 12-year-old startup " .

12 years! In most other sectors of technology that is a lifetime.