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Defying Moore: Envisioning the Economics of a Semiconductor Revolution through 12nm Specialization.

This article investigates whether new artificial intelligence (AI) chips can be built at 12nm technology and exceed or at least match chips made at 5nm or lower. The authors cite the four trends in the semiconductor industry including the perceived end of Moore’s law when investigating technology sc...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 68; no. 7; pp. 108 - 120
Main Authors: Davies, Michael, Sankaralingam, Karthikeyan
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2025
Subjects:
Semiconductor design
Semiconductor industry
Technological innovations
Computer architecture
Moore's law
Economics
Graphics processing units
Bandwidths
Sustainability
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:This article investigates whether new artificial intelligence (AI) chips can be built at 12nm technology and exceed or at least match chips made at 5nm or lower. The authors cite the four trends in the semiconductor industry including the perceived end of Moore’s law when investigating technology scaling and architectural innovation. This research presents tiled decoupled control and compute (TDCC) architecture with Galileo as an example and compares it to others with TDCC, including SIGMA, as well as Nvidia’s graphics processing unit (GPU).