For decades, chip scaling has followed a simple linear curve. In this curve, the transistor gate-pitch scales at 0.7x every two years. This is the driving force behind Moore’s Law, which states that the number of transistors per chip roughly doubles every two years.
But starting at the 16nm/14nm node, there is a change taking place in chip scaling. According to a chart from Imec, there are...
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