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Intel Has Figured Out How To Compute In 3 Dimensions And It Could Put The Company Back On Top
In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore published a remarkably prescient paper, which predicted that the number of transistors on a computer chip would double about every two years. For a half century, this process of doubling has proved to be so remarkably consistent that today it is commonly known as Moore’s Law and has driven the digital revolution.
For most of the past 50 years, Intel has led the industry by doubling transistors faster than its rivals, investing billions into massive fabs to produce the next generation of chips before anyone else. More recently, however, the giant has stumbled, losing ground to firms such as AMD, Qualcomm and Nvidia.
Yet the company recently announced a breakthrough with its Foveros technology that has the potential to put it back on top. No longer just cramming more transistors onto a silicon wafer, it has solved a decades old physics problem to stack chips on top of each other. This has the potential to not only change Intel’s fortunes, but to reshape the industry for years to come.
The Race To The Bottom
Ever since Moore published his famous paper, chip manufacturers have been able to continually come up with new techniques to keep cramming more transistors…
