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Intel India swears by technological roadmap

Shyam Ranganathan

CHENNAI: The microchip is 50 years old now, but the Integrated Chip with transistor technology is not close to obsolescence.

Speaking to The Hindu on the sidelines of Connect 2008, Sunti Tyagi, director-technology, Intel India, said Intel had a technological roadmap until 2020, and Intel India figured to play an active part in development activities for the next rounds of chip design.

The development of ICs has followed the famous Moore’s Law according to which the number of transistors in an IC would roughly double each year. Technology has continually reduced the dimensions of the transistor to make a small chip more powerful than ever. This process has reached such a level that many questions have been raised about when the process of miniaturisation will come to a stop. Dr. Tyagi, however, said Intel had a roadmap until 2020, and Indian engineers and researchers would have a big role to play in Intel’s plans.

Intel India had fully developed from concept to final design the state-of-the-art 6-core Dunnington processor and contributed partially or wholly to most of Intel’s laptop platforms over the past few years, he said.

Dr. Tyagi, who has been involved in Intel’s microprocessor research, said India had a strong presence in research and technology and Intel India was keen on using this potential to its fullest.

Noting that industry estimates for the semiconductor technology industry projected a 20 per cent annual growth for the next decade, Dr. Tyagi said India was set to grow 3-5 times faster than the global average. VLSI design itself was set to grow from being a $1.1 billion industry to $4 billion by 2012.

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