In the just concluded 2016 ITF (IMEC global BBS) science and technology, the world's leading independent nanotechnology research institutions - the chief executive of IMEC Luc van den Hove pointed out that "scaling (smaller) will continue, not only did I believe it will continue to be, and I think it has to continue."

At present, he thought, technically, the FINFET, Lateral Nanowire (horizontal) nanowires and Vertical Nanowire (Vertical) nanowires have been able to help us continue to advance to 3 nm process node. EUV lithography technology will be the only option for the future. According to the progress of the past few months, he believed that the EUV lithography to manufacturing.

In the past few decades, it is to promote the development of global companies that dares to come. As you can see, Uber appeared, it provides the world with the most rental cars, but itself does not have any taxi; Reality, it provides accommodation more than other global companies, but do not own any property itself; And Facebook, the world's largest media company itself does not produce any content. Luc, points out that we are experiencing a third wave. The first was in the 1980 s began to wave of PC; The second wave of APP since 2000; Since 2015 the third wave is a wave of IoT.

"We are at the eve of the outbreak of IoT. IoT will change the living environment, make it adapted to our needs. There will be billions in IoT level sensors, bring huge amounts of data, it will cause disruptive change." Luc said.

Although can not predict the disruptive change how long it will take to happen. But at the moment, to be sure, as long as IoT started to popularize, can produce a lot of opportunities. Any company will gain the power of innovation from the wave of IoT.

Most importantly, IC technology will, as usual, become to promote the core strength of the disruptive change. As in 1965, Gordon Moore said: "the future of the integrated circuit, it is the future of the electronics industry."

Pursue is faster in the past decades, the industry's efficiency, lower power consumption, smaller chips and higher efficacy. As the Scaling (smaller) is becoming increasingly difficult, Moore's law will continue to play a role?

If from the point of view of the 2 d, scaling can indeed slowing. But if from the point of view of 3 d, combining transistors stacked with heterogeneous integration, can continue to scaling. Coupled with magnetic and rotation, we can try some new paths beyond the CMOS devices.

From the system level, in the field of traditional computer also is undergoing change, such as neural computing, quantum computing, etc. Neural computing, IMEC is to imitate the brain from hardware field internal connection, according to each neuron through its synapses are connected to the other 10 ~ 15000 neurons, the principle of the global neural communication solutions to be narrowed.

In terms of application, medical will toward accurate medical development, "DNA sequencing has to catch up with the speed of Moore's law". DNA sequencing is the key to the accurate medical factors, but often require up to one million yuan and ten million yuan level of cost. IMEC is trying to push the work progress, it has developed a set of photonic and electronic chips, the cost of DNA sequencing can be reduced by half.

In addition, autopilot, IoT is outbreak level of growth in the next IC application domain.