1.1 Silicon technologies and solutions for the data-driven world

The remarkable evolution of human society over the centuries has been driven by information. As information became digitalized thanks to silicon technologies, creating, sharing, and searching of data have become much easier. Most recently, scaled silicon technology has been at the core of this information revolution, as it forms the basis on which digital devices, such as computers, smartphones, and tablets, are built. As the feature size of silicon technology approaches sub-10nm, there are concerns that it cannot satisfy the demand for high performance devices through scaling any longer. However, through innovations in materials, structures, and processes, it will continue to provide higher-performance components to electronics systems for the coming decades. With performance-enhancing technologies, such as 3D ICs and Through-Silicon Vias (TSVs), and systems technologies on servers, clients, and interconnections, the data-driven world will continue to expand in the future.