In the past, you had spoken quite vociferously about the telecom processor, what is the latest on that?
Back in the nineties, I had realized that the race for higher and higher performance would come to an end. Connectivity would be the key in the future. The idea was to stay connected on high-speed bandwidth. But, with Internet becoming more pervasive, there was a slowing in the flow of information. In that context, I had coined the word telecom processor to put the discussion, that we need a chip that allows us to have that connectivity, in center stage. At Silicon Spice, we had created a prototype of the telecom processor that enabled Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and even allowed multiple VoIP conversations. The idea has now taken off in a big way, globally. What about the race to Moore’s Law (according to which the transistor density of integrated circuits doubles up every 18 months)? I think that Moore’s law is reaching a point where it is a getting more limited by economics rather than by physics. Doubling the density is getting very complicated by the day and it will take l
