While it may take decades for consumers to begin to see the benefits of cutting-edge research, it should be known that once Moore's law is completely shattered, tens of thousands of people will activ

Moore's law has been the driving force behind the development of semiconductor devices for nearly half a century. But the physical limits of atomic levels break Moore's law, and the next generation of electronics requires a new move to push the second major revolution in computing. Intel co-founder Goron Moore has said that the number of transistors on the chip will increase by one times a year, while the cost can be halved.

Since 1965, this concept has been in existence and has remained largely unchanged over the past year. Because we have physical limits to the size of the atomic structure that make up modern electronic products, we still need to figure out where we're going next. To help clear this up, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is hosting the first electronic revival program.

The three-day event, to be held in San Francisco from July 23 to 25th, will bring an investment of 1.5 billion dollars to the innovative concept of the next generation of electronic products. Industry partners include Alphabet, Intel, Cadence, Nvidia, IBM, Mentor graphics and Applied materials. At the ERI Summit, artificial intelligence, hardware security, hardware emulation and photonics will be the focus. At present, the industry needs not only to build better hardware, but also to build tools that help design engineers design the next generation of products.

Hardware emulation becomes more difficult when the next generation of hardware does not yet exist. Photonics, which is being studied, may be used as a means of improving our existing processes. CPUs, GPU, FPGA and ASIC all rely on smaller transistors to squeeze more performance with lower power consumption. Enabling a light based interconnect allows delay depending on the speed of light passing through the medium rather than the current through the semiconductor. The theory of photonics embedded in microelectronic systems has been in existence for decades, but it has not solved the feasibility problem completely.

Unlike conventional silicon, photonic devices do not now scale well to facilitate mass production. This collaborative industry activity can shape the way in which electronic products can develop in the foreseeable future.