SFNs ‘Infrastructure Time Machine’ for chip designs
Summary
Explains David Summerland, CEO of SFN: “Until Bizen, the Zpolar transistor and ZTL logic, high performance chips for applications such as 5G and RISC-V could only be produced at facilities such as the Taiwanese giant, TSMC, which controls most of the world’s high-performance semiconductor production. The increasing number of cones shows how markets have widened each decade from just the computers applications of 60 years ago, to today, where the micro chip is ubiquitous and used in everything from the IoT, EVs, communications and consumer goods through to defence and other nationally-strategic and sensitive installations. Bizen ZTL chips require far fewer processing layers, enabling complex devices to be manufactured in large-geometry fabs around the world. Zpolar transistors move away from a reliance on the unipolar structure of CMOS, to take advantage of an inherent hair trigger input and minimised vertical size. Since the ICs are so much simpler to produce, and/or more chips can be made per wafer, we are also solving the semiconductor shortage crisis, and at the same time, eliminating our reliance on foreign powers and their roads.