{"532531":{"#nid":"532531","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Moore\u2019s Law Running Out of Room, Tech Looks for a Successor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022story-body-text\u0022\u003EFor decades, the computer industry has been guided by a faith that engineers would always find a way to make the components on computer chips smaller, faster and cheaper.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022story-body-text\u0022\u003EBut a decision by a global alliance of chip makers to back away from reliance on Moore\u2019s Law, a principle that has guided tech companies from the giant mainframes of the 1960s to today\u2019s smartphones, shows that the industry may need to rethink the central tenet of Silicon Valley\u2019s innovation ethos.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo replace what the semiconductor industry has done for nearly 25 years, a professional organization called the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers announced on Wednesday that it will a create a new forecasting system, called the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems, that is intended to track a wider range of computer technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne technology could be so-called\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/04\/technology\/ibm-wants-everyone-to-try-a-quantum-computer.html\u0022\u003Equantum computing\u003C\/a\u003E, a cutting-edge reimagining of how computers work that taps quantum physics \u2014 a branch of physics that explains how matter and energy interact. Another could be graphene, a form of carbon and an alternative to silicon that could produce smaller and faster transistors that use less power.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022story-body-text\u0022\u003E\u201cThe end of Moore\u2019s Law is what led to this,\u201d said Thomas M. Conte, a Georgia Institute of Technology computer scientist and co-chairman of the effort to draw up a new set of benchmarks to replace the semiconductor reports. \u201cJust relying on the semiconductor industry is no longer enough. We have to shift and punch through some walls and break through some barriers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2016-05-04 13:27:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:28:07","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Extension of Self","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/05\/technology\/moores-law-running-out-of-room-tech-looks-for-a-successor.html?_r=1","dateline":{"date":"2016-05-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-05-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}