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摘要

The semiconductor manufacturing community faces a plethora of challenges in the drive to keep Moore's Law alive and kicking (these we'll discuss later). Most IC technologies, such as microprocessors, memories, and logic devices, employ complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology, which has been around since 1963. As Gordon Moore predicted back in 1965 (with a few revisions since then), the number of semiconductor components (transistors) has doubled roughly every 18 months. This often misquoted and over-quoted prediction became known as "Moore's Law."