Despite regular new announcements about the potential viability of wonder material graphene, the senior VP of AMD’s datacentre group has dismissed a move away from silicon as the bedrock of performance computing anytime soon. Forrest Norrod was asked the question aboutour post-silicon future and suggested we’re going to be sticking with tradition for maybe another decade.

The key players in the PC industry have already been laying out their fresh plans for world computing domination, and the Game Developers Conference and Graphics Technology Conference haven’t even started in earnest yet. The latest round of computing announcements have come from the Rice Oil and Gas HPC conference, where Norrod also suggested that, without 3D stacking, AMD’s chiplet technology is just a quick fix for the failure of Moore’s Law.

Intel has also used the conference to announce that its 10nm production process is back on track and ahead of where it expected to be, with products coming “sooner to market.” This latest news, however, is looking much further into the future.