Nano-electronics challenge chip designers meet real nano-electronics in 2010s?

During 1990s, silicon-based CMOS made steady advancement with miniaturization and with lower power consumption by incorporating the scaling effect and expanded its share by invading the region of bipolar transistors and compound semiconductors market. On the other hand, new semiconductor application technologies grew rapidly one after the other in conjunction with the development of silicone CMOS technologies. Such developments included the microprocessor for PC, server and router chipsets for internet application, RF for cellular phones, analogue circuitry, base band processors, and wireless LAN technologies. Also in memory areas, the flash memory technology was introduced into the market and FeRAM, MRAM, and PRAM technologies with new principles were introduced into the market.