#semiconductor-scaling

#semiconductor-scaling

“We found a new path,” He said at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems in Shanghai last weekend. He, who is known in China as Huawei's “chip queen,” promised that the company would prove the viability of the new approach, presumably with a new chip, in the coming months. “Before winter 2026, we will bring the surprise,” He said. “Not saturation, not continuation, but a big leap ahead.”

Moore's Law has been around for more than five decades now and has shaped the chip manufacturing industry. Still, lately, it has been facing physical limits and diminishing economic returns, partially because it's based on geometric scaling. Huawei came up with a new scaling law called "Tau (τ) Scaling Law." It's based on time, and Huawei believes it's the way to go when it comes to semiconductor industry development.