Reducing the Cost of Semiconductor Chip Manufacturing

摘要

The most common relationship describing increases in semiconductor device complexity as a function of time is known as Moore's Law. Named after Gordon Moore, Chairman of the Board at Intel Corp., who recognized this trend in the early years of the semiconductor device industry, this law basically states that memory or logic chip complexity (measured as the number of individual active elements resident on a single silicon chip), doubles every device generation - in other words, about every 18 months. As shown in Fig. 1, Moore's Law has remained valid for about 25 years. Furthermore, extrapolations by know ledgeable device technologists show few signs of departure from linearity, at least for another few device generations.