Semicon West: Forget microelectronics it’s not even nano let’s call it atomtronics

The era of atomic level control of electrical properties have already begun, in that sense the so-called Moore’s law will continue but with the new way of doing things. The researchers in semiconductor manufacturing are both engineers and also equally good material scientists who always explored how to find a way around the technology barricades/walls and also design a manufacturing process in such a way that it can be manufactured in volumes at a cost feasible for business success. So it takes a huge amount of scientific as well as engineering talent and also business knowledge of the industry in this field of semiconductor research. The less expensive and simple processes are explored first compared to the complex ones. Now engineers are thrown out with two paths to take, one is FDSOI and other is finFET. FDSOI suddenly finds some increase in interest, Globalfoundries is investing in building a 22 nm FDSOI fab, Samsung has already have it along with STMicroelectronics' FDSOI fab in France. Monolithic 3D IC is also progressing faster check-out CEA Leti's CoolCube tech. The material magic: Its no more silicon alone, Germanium has already given a grand entry. The 7 nm test-chips taped out by IBM have used silicon germanium material. Well, you have the whole periodic table to explore to take further down the 7 nm. Compound semiconductors are performing better than silicon...