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The father of FinFets: Chenming Hu took transistors into the third dimension to save Moore's Law.

Authors :
Perry, Tekla S.
Source :
IEEE Spectrum; May2020, Vol. 57 Issue 5, p46-51, 6p
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

It was 1995. Advances in chip technology continued apace with Moore's Law, the observation that the number of transistors on a chip doubles roughly every two years, generally because of the shrinking size of those transistors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subjects

Subjects :
MOORE'S law
TRANSISTORS
FATHERS

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00189235
Volume :
57
Issue :
5
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
IEEE Spectrum
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
142929909
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2020.9078456