5 Questions for Julien Ryckaert: Why CMOS 2.0 is the Next Phase of Moore's Law

CMOS, the silicon logic technology behind decades and decades of smaller transistors and faster computers, is entering a new phase. CMOS uses two types of transistors in pairs to limit a circuit's power consumption. In this new phase, “CMOS 2.0,” that part's not going to change, but how processors and other complex CMOS chips are made will. Julien Ryckaert, vice president of logic technologies at Imec, the Belgium-based nanotechnology research center, told IEEE Spectrum where things are headed.