1965
Moore's Law announced from Silicon Valley
*** Industry Trends ***
In 1965, Gordon Moore (Fairchild) published an empirical rule stating that the number of transistors on an IC doubles approximately every year in an exponential pattern [1]. This later became known as “Moore's Law.” Given that this empirical rule emerged only seven or eight years after Kilby filed his IC patent in 1957, its track record initially seemed insufficient. Since the 1970s, the semiconductor industry and the electronic systems industry utilizing semiconductors have driven innovation precisely to adhere faithfully to Moore's Law. In 1974, R. Denard's scaling law for MOS devices can be seen as formalizing design criteria for miniaturizing transistors in accordance with Moore's Law. Moore's Law came to feel as certain as a physical law, enabling a shared global vision of future systems—at least in terms of their scale, general performance, and cost. The semiconductor industry established and developed a common foundation for standardization through collaboration, driven by the law that semiconductors advance in a straight line in a predetermined direction. The creation of the National Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (NTRS) starting from 1992, spearheaded by the SIA, can be attributed to the validity of Moore's Law. This initiative became internationalized in 1998 when the EU, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan joined, transforming it into the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS), which continued until 2016.[2]
【References】
- Semiconductor History Museum of Japan, Industry Trends, "1965: Moore's Law proposed (Gordon E. Moore)"
https://www.shmj.or.jp/english/pdf/ic/exhibi721E.pdf - Semiconductor History Museum of Japan, Equipment & Material, "1998: Issue of ITRS"
https://www.shmj.or.jp/english/pdf/em/exhibi2466E.pdf
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