CDN India live 2013: Big data and 1x nm chips

At the recently concluded VLSI and PCB design event CDN India live 2013, Lip Bu Tan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cadence Design Systems highlighted the latest trends in electronics such as big data, Internet of things, social media, mobility, and cloud computing. The hot products highlighted by Lip Bu includes Smart watch and wearable electronics, 4K displays, e-glass and electric cars. Lib Bu Tan shared to viewers his analysis of how 8 million servers, 50 million cars, 100 million tablets, billions of mobile phones sending and receiving huge quantity of data across networks worldover. Processing this huge amount of data is called big data analysis, whose size is expected soon in the range of zettabytes. While sharing the trend of growing big data movement between servers and clients, now which also includes Internet connected home appliances and smart systems, Lip Bu said chip design software from Cadence can handle 2.3 billion logic gates. With the data growing bigger and bigger, the functions inside the chips are growing smaller and smaller by the physical size they occupy. He talked about deep nm trends such as 3-D semiconductor fabrication, multiple patterning and the most important, the finFET. Lip Bu Tan is very hopeful of Indian entrepreneurs in technology domain, he had forecasted next big technology innovator in the world is going to come from I...