Pascal Brier, Chief Innovation Officer at Capgemini
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The semiconductor business is on the verge of a transformative period, with a number of factors converging to redefine its landscape in 2024, forecast French tech main Capgemini.
Already chips are reaching 2nm (refers to a brand new, improved era of chips in phrases of elevated transistor density, a better diploma of miniaturization, elevated velocity, and decreased energy consumption in contrast with earlier era chips), transistors are approaching the dimensions of some atoms, and the ever-growing investments in R&D and cutting-edge fabrication services have gotten difficult for even the most important chipmakers, as per firm’s tech consultants who spoke on key traits to watch in 2024.
To keep on the highest of the tech curve, Capgemini’s groups have been scanning the expertise landscape every day to harness the ability of innovation for our purchasers and anticipate key expertise breakthroughs on the horizon, the corporate claimed.
Pascal Brier, Chief Innovation Officer at Capgemini and Member of the Group Executive Committee mentioned, Capgemini’s groups have been scanning the expertise landscape on a day by day foundation to harness the ability of innovation for its purchasers and anticipate key expertise breakthroughs on the horizon.
“Besides semiconductor, areas to watch in 2024 include evolutions in generative AI, post-quantum cryptography, battery technologies, and new space exploration, all of which will be instrumental to help us address the challenges of our economies, communities and ecosystems,” added Mr. Brier.
As the most-traded items in the world (forward of crude oil and motor automobiles), semiconductors are a vital enabler of digital transformation. Moore’s Law states that the computing energy of a microchip doubles each two years whereas the associated fee halves–however is that this principle reaching its bodily and financial limits, tech consultants in the corporate questioned.
“Year 2024 should see an evolution of Moore’s law, with new paradigms: despite approaching the absolute physical limit of chip miniaturisation, chiplets should see breakthroughs in 3D chip stacking, innovations in material science and new forms of lithography to continue increasing computing power,” mentioned one among them.
According to Capgemini spokespersons, an accelerated digital transformation is anticipated throughout industries, enabled by extra highly effective linked objects, from smartphones to electrical automobiles, to information facilities and telecoms. These technological breakthroughs will be mirrored in shifts in the ecosystem of semiconductors itself, with new gigafactories, rules, enterprise fashions and foundry companies rising in 2024.
Batteries provide the ability of latest chemistry
Improving the efficiency and lowering the prices of batteries is a significant focus for each companies and governments, as the commercial stakes are excessive for every nation, as per Capgemini.
The purpose was to assist electrical mobility and speed up long-duration power storage, which was crucial to speed-up the power transition to renewables and the acceleration of good grids. While LFP (lithium ferro-phosphate) and NMC (nickel manganese cobalt) have been changing into normal for electrical automobile functions, a number of applied sciences with the chemistry of batteries have been being explored, corresponding to cobalt-free (sodium-ion) or solid-state batteries, with a possible acceleration in 2024, a pack of consultants who participated at TechnoVision, a development dialogue, noticed.
The latter represented a significant shift in battery expertise, primarily for electrical automobiles, as they’ve larger power densities (i.e. storage capability), for a worth which will turn into decrease than conventional batteries, the corporate mentioned.
“They also reduce dependency on materials such as particular lithium, nickel, cobalt, rare-earth minerals and graphite, while promising longer lifespans and more robust safety,” mentioned one other tech chief at Capgemini.
