Announced earlier this month, according to 2015 semiconductor international technology roadmap after 50 years of miniaturization, stop shrinking transistor may be in a short span of five years. The report forecasts that by 2021, continue to shrink small transistor size of the processor, for the company no longer economic. Instead, chip makers will use other means to improve the transistor density, that is, from horizontal to vertical, multilayer circuit is established.

Some people think that this change will be interpreted as Moore's law in a different way of death. To make matters worse, this is the last of the ITRS roadmap. At present, the semiconductor industry association and semiconductor research has parted ways, Moore's law after death, to find and develop new semiconductor roadmap. Also involved in other ITRS participants.

But industry analysts believe that these changes in roadmap seemingly insignificant, but it is a significant for the whole industry, or earthquake, semiconductor companies in the United States has reason to need to cooperate, identify common needs. At the beginning of 2001 19 large semiconductor companies around the world now only four: Intel, TSMC, samsung and GlobalFoundries.