Hu takes up the battle cry of CMOS 'rejuvenation'

摘要

Chenming "Calvin" Hu believes more emphasis should be placed on research into technologies that can rejuvenate, enhance, and extend CMOS, rather than overemphasizing efforts to replace the existing chip-processing infrastructure. Hu is the TSMC distinguished chair of microelectronics in the department of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. The award-winning educator is a prolific researcher and technical-paper writer, and is recognized as one of the foremost experts in FinFETs and IC simulation. A few weeks after I heard Hu's "From CMOS to Nano-CMOS" keynote at the recent Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference, I talked with him about his views on some of the emerging technologies that will extend the lifetime of CMOS chipmaking.