Celebrating 75 years of the transistor A look at the evolution of Moore’s Law innovation

For 75 years, transistor and integrated circuit (IC) innovations have primarily served as the fundamental engine of scaling for electronic devices. Moore’s Law, predicting functional integration increases over time, continues to be built upon a foundation of semiconductor process scaling. As needs for functional integration increase, classes of co-optimization opportunities have become prevalent. Design-technology-co-optimization (DTCO) has been leveraged. More recently, the industry began to implement system-technology-co-optimization (STCO) techniques to further advance functional integration.