CHAPTER 3

Impact of Moore’s Law on the Transformation of Chinese Semiconductor Industry

Introduction

This volume is about the progress of semiconductor industry where the numbers of transistors on an integrated circuit have been doubling approximately every 2 years, a rate that has held strong for more than half a century. The nature of this exponential trend was first proposed by the Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965. The name of the trend coined was “Moore’s law,” and its accuracy has proven to be a guiding factor for more than half a century of technological progress in the semiconductor industry to define its long-term planning and its ability to accurately set targets for R&D. An ignorance of common-sense macroeconomics in sustaining ...

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