Using innovation to drive Moore’s Law

MOSFET scaling has served our industry well for several decades by providing significant improvements in performance, density and power, but traditional MOSFET scaling has run into hard roadblocks. Interconnect and patterning technologies have also run into significant limitations when trying to follow traditional scaling methods. The past few years have seen the introduction of new materials and device structures in integrated circuits that have kept us on the path of Moore´s Law. These types of innovations will be increasingly important as we continue to scale.