The 2001 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), featured a typically dense series of papers, a refreshing change from the marketing-driven faux-technical talks heard so much in Silicon Valley these days. There were lectures on a host of topics: the future of microelectronics manufacturing, simulation, physics aspects of microelectronics, new materials applications, and process technologies. In listening to these brilliant researchers enumerating technical achievements and forecasting the delivery dates for new technologies, it has become clear that the ability to understand the development and delivery of new technologies has improved vastly over the last two decades.
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