In today’s computer chips, a square of silicon roughly the size of your thumbnail is home to billions of transistors.
By 2030, Intel aims to increase that number to about a trillion.
These initiatives are the brainchild of Tahir Ghani, an Intel Senior Fellow and the group’s director of process pathfinding.
Tahir has worked at Intel for 28 years and has submitted more than 1,000 patents. He also managed teams that brought about some of the most significant advancements in transistor technology. Strain silicon, High-K metal gates, FinFet transistors, and most recently RibbonFET transistors are among the innovations made by his teams.
Tahir is recognised as Intel’s Inventor of the Year for 2022 as a result of his achievements.
“For his entire nearly 30-year career, Tahir has role-modeled this relentless commitment to technology innovation in pursuit of Moore’s Law,” says Sanjay Natarajan, Intel senior vice president and co-GM of Logic Technology Development. “His contribution to semiconductor technology is enormous, and I am proud to call him one of the industry’s greatest inventors.”
The end of Moore’s Law has been prophesied by many experts in business and academics, but Tahir claims Intel has fresh ideas that keep it alive.
Tahir, an employee at Intel’s Gordon Moore Park campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, declares, “It won’t perish on my watch. Moore’s Law is only broken when innovation is interrupted.
Watch Tahir discuss his work and what it means to maintain Moore’s Law in “In My Own Words.”
