Robert H. Dennard - HoF

Summary : Robert H. Dennard - HoF: For making two of the most revolutionary contributions to the semiconductor industry

Robert H. Dennard — HoF: For making two of the most revolutionary contributions to the semiconductor industry

Development of the DRAM in 1966
Codifying how, "Transistor shrinks result in proportional power and/or performance gains" in 1974
- This was the Power and Performance part of the PPAC equation that is often bundled into discussions of Moore's Law
- Today, Dennard's Law lives on in spirit, as Performance and Power gains-per-node are still important, though they have come from Materials-Enabled Scaling* since <100nm

For more, click here: https://www.chiphistory.org/766-power-performance-in-ics-where-the-trend-started

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