A CMOS technology roadmap for the next fifteen years

A technology roadmap for semiconductors, which forecasts CMOS technology for the next 15 years, was published recently by the SIA in the USA. A major goal of the roadmap is to provide a guide that can be used for R&D investment decisions and selection of roles by R&D organizations. The roadmap development process, the principal technology characteristics, as well as the key assumptions and major technical issues are discussed. Areas of focused development will include scaling with power supply voltage reduction, power dissipation reduction, transient-current reduction, and SOI CMOS technology.