Leading-edge Process Technologies for Efficient Low-power Systems

Demand for compute continues to soar insatiably with successive waves of mobile-, ubiquitous-, and now AI-based workloads. The sheer magnitude of compute demand is raising serious concerns about the energy sustainability of computing and is spurring collaborative co-optimization across the board from process technologies to circuits to systems in delivering more energy-efficient solutions. This talk will focus on FinFETs, today's dominant high-volume CMOS transistor architecture for digital compute systems. FinFET transistors are fully depleted and provide high performance and low leakage benefits for both digital and analog/mixed-signal/RF circuits. This talk will also cover several technology innovations such as the new gate-all-around nanoribbon transistor architecture, advanced packaging for heterogeneous integration, as well as non-CMOS materials such as gallium nitride. Design demonstrations and capabilities are highlighted throughout the presentation to accompany the discussed technologies.