At What Point Does Transistor Gate Length Stop Getting Smaller?
August 8, 2016
When I started doing IC design back in 1978 we had 6,000 nm channel gate lengths, and today you can buy a smart phone with 16 nm or 14 nm technology, although the gate lengths in those phones are more like 34 nm. The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) makes predictions about emerging trends in our industry and they just released a chart showing transistor gate length stopping its typical shrinking trend in the year 2021:
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