Digital innovation vs. secular

stagnation?

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Future Digital Economy Forum

Yves GASSOT

CEO, IDATE

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Questions

1. Do you share Moore’s view – as stated in a recent interview – that his “law”

will hold true for another 5 to 10 years?

2. In 1966, the cost of building a plant for a new chip was $14 million. In 1995, it

cost $1.5 billion. Today, talk is in the arena of $10 billion…: Do you think that

the price-per-transistor will continue to decrease with each new

generation?

3. In addition to making the features of a chip smaller (<14nm), what are the

various alternative options (heterogeneous integration, 3-tier architecture,

approach beyond CMOS…)?

4. Do we think that the US will continue to dominate the microprocessor

industry for a long time to come?

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