The Silicon Renaissance

Some say the chip industry is going the way of other moribund industries like steel, others say it just needs a scalable post-silicon material, but Victor Peng thinks it is due for a renaissance based on architectures.

“A lot of people much smarter than I am say that the entire data centre is a computer,” Victor Peng CEO of Xilinx told a Silicon Valley think forum recently, “there’s going to be computing in the CPU, in the storage, memory in flight in the network adapter, even in a switch.”

That’s why, thinks Peng, there’s going to be a Silicon Renaissance.

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