With the progress of semiconductor process technology and intelligent mobile phone demand for ultimate performance, mobile processors technology process is heading for a new height. At present, the world's leading wafer foundries, already will craft process to 10 nm FinFET, 16/14 nm node SoC has to realize mass production, so high-speed semiconductor technology node at the speed of Moore's law development so far, mobile processors process evolving process and what are challenges? At the same time, in the 20th nanotechnology node after conventional CMOS decline, it will give FinFET and FD - SOI technology in the development of technology and application on how to change?

5 nm node is the technical limit Moore's law has been fixed meaning is still there

The global semiconductor industry has experienced 50 years of rapid development, the main driver and application market has shifted from PC to smart phones, now waiting for new killer terminal application at the same time, the smartphone is still important to promoting the evolution of its technology.

Chen Qingan spreadtrum communications operations vice President, "huaqiang electronic interview as early as the beginning of 2000, the driving force of the semiconductor industry from the PC industry, headed by the GPU, but over the next ten years the industry has been a significant change, the progress of the semiconductor industry has been driven by the GPU mode to the drive mode of mobile phone.

Due to the rapid development of the mobile phone market, users of mobile phone performance specifications of the requirements are constantly improve, and to do this have to keep the progress of the semiconductor technology process. "Today's computing power of mobile phone processor is almost a mini PC, according to Moore's law, the chip integrated transistors are getting smaller, more and more, and costs continue to drop, the computing power is rising, making mobile processors can do more for the application." Chen Qingan said, today's smartphones and the future of virtual reality, are the results of semiconductor technology progress, which is why smart mobile phone industry will become the leader now semiconductor development drive.

Al core technology co., LTD., vice President of chengdu said in an interview with this reporter, computing power, power consumption, cost control, supply are smartphone processor ongoing technology such as the motivation of the evolution of node each generation of SP processor because the user's needs and to seek more efficient solutions, including communication architecture, baseband algorithms, a peripheral interface, storage architecture, the demand such as target cost and reversed transmission progress of semiconductor process, to achieve and beyond Moore's law under the user's expectations, to eliminate the huge cost pressure, excess profit, in turn, cycle, the incremental formation, accelerate the development trend of semiconductor industry.

"SP processor, semiconductor technology update speed accelerated obviously, this is unprecedented in the history of the development of the past, with smartphones as processor technology of hardware platform, the evolution speed is close to technical limit." Chengdu, said further to provide a broad application and software reliable and cheap product application environment, new application mode and the product definition will promote further healthy development of the semiconductor industry.

As the evolution speed is close to the limit, Moore's law inference on the development of semiconductor industry is being broken, with smart phones as the core driven mobile processors have realized 14 nanotechnology node. Chen Qingan said, in fact, the current node has done 10 nm semiconductor technology, Moore's law is being broken, but has not been broken, is continuing, and 10 nanometers is not the limit, 7 nm is we see one of the most advanced technology.

Great professor kang senior semiconductor industry experts increasingly ripe important sign is for the semiconductor industry, promote industry progress of classic - Moore's law has officially been fixed, by before every two years ago into a technology node, to today's 2.5 years or three years.

Chengdu agrees, saying that Moore's law still has guiding significance, from the perspective of the development of mobile processor, 10, 7 nano has entered the stage of validation, technical limit should be lower than 7 nm in the future.

Mediatek's deputy general manager, the CTO Zhou Yujun said in an interview with this reporter, in the past the industry thinks 20 nanometers is physical limits, with further breakthroughs in semiconductor technology, the direction of the future will be to smaller, now see the physical limit is 5 nm node, and in the current 10 nm node, mediatek can walk in the forefront, will be released at the end of this year with FinFET process 10 nuclear 10 nm X30 mobile processors.

Great professor kang told reporters that many top IDM companies have started to stop in 28 nm process following Moore's law, to embrace the foundry, lead to global generation of industrial performance. This is also the contract such as samsung and TSMC daqo Evergrande reasons, the guiding significance of Moore's law is still in.

In fact, for the semiconductor industry development and guide the physical limits of Moore's law, it is hard to to define how much the limit of the semiconductor technology development node. Chen Qingan tells a reporter, seven nanometers, and the future of 3 nm node, there is still a distance from the technical limit, the so-called technical limit depends on how you define it. From the point of view of Moore's law, the limit of technology development is not only a technical problem, more is an economic problem. Seven nanometers, and the future of 3 nm, can achieve on the technology, but in the end, if it is able to meeting the needs of customers and users, this is the key impact on the development of the technology. Therefore, the development of semiconductor technology limit is not clear at present, but we can't underestimate the ability of the industry, for decades, many people think that Moore's law go not bottom go to, but in fact it continues today, the reason is that many of the existing vendors will continue to improvement in the development of technology, beyond the original some limit. So we can't underestimate the innovation ability of industry, even if Moore's law can't go on, that doesn't mean that it is no way to continue to innovate, such as now someone put forward the wining Moore concept, will take several on a silicon chip to achieve Moore's law have no way to achieve some breakthrough, so, for the semiconductor industry, and will continue to have the innovation to promote industry development forward.