7nm node is arriving, which ones will continue past 2020?
February 19, 2015
‘Laughing Buddha’ is eternal, but for semiconductor industry, I must say it’s ‘laughing Moore’. Moore made a predictive hypothesis and the whole world is inclined to let that continue, eternally? When we were at 28nm, we weren’t hoping to go beyond 20/22nm; voices like ‘Moore’s law is dead’ started emerging. Today, we are already into production at 16nm and 14nm, and looking at 10nm, 7nm, 5nm, 3nm, and even lower going forward.
Well, there is a large contribution of FinFET transistor structure in scaling the semiconductor technology to 16nm/14nm. FinFET along with high mobility materials like III-V and Ge for its channel can pull the node up to 10nm, may be 7nm, but not beyond that.
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