Moore's Law, despite the gloomy forecasts, will continue to work well into the next decade, the chairman and CEO of Synopsys, Aart de Geus (Aart De Geus). His company produces software packages for the design of semiconductor chips. First , the preservation of Moore's Law will result in a slowdown in transistors cost reduction . In practice this will mean that the starting prices for the new processors will be higher and cheaper older models will be slower. When this situation is aggravated by the cost of the chips that the transition to increased diameter wafers postponed to later dates. However, it gives the green light to alternative technologies in production, but only just. Fully developed other technologies for the production of chips as there was or not.
According to industry experts, 28-nm manufacturing process technology will be the last, which gave producers typical volume bonuses on all fronts: increased transistor performance, reduced their consumption and costs. It is important to emphasize that we are talking primarily about the product yield. Transistors will be cheaper and more expensive processors. In this regard, interesting answer one of the leading Intel experts , who in an interview with the head of Synopsys said whatever way cost of transistors will be reduced up to 7 nm.
All this gives the Director Synopsys occasion to say that the mass migration to 16/14 nm process technology - is a distant prospect. 20nm process technology standards became a barrier .