Title :
The Economic Limit to Moore´s Law
Author :
Rupp, Karl ; Selberherr, Siegfried
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Microelectron., Tech. Univ. Wien, Vienna, Austria
Abstract :
There have been numerous papers and discussions about the lives and deaths of Moore´s Law, all of them dealing with several technological questions. In this paper, we consider economic limitations to the exponential growth of the number of components per chip. As the presented growth model shows, economics constitute indeed a potential slow-down mechanism.
Keywords :
integrated circuit modelling; Moore law; exponential growth; growth model; potential slow-down mechanism; Components per chip; Moore´s Law; fabrication costs; growth modeling;
Journal_Title :
Semiconductor Manufacturing, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TSM.2010.2089811
