ABSTRACT
Moore's law is related to the scaling law founded on the work of Dennard, known as Dennard scaling. Dennard scaling is specifically related to power scaling in complementary metal-oxide semiconductor transistors. One of the factors that drive Moore's law is the scalability of semiconductor feature sizes. Another driving force for Moore's law is derived from economics the financial viability of shrinking the size of the transistor gate length or introducing new materials. The critical economic aspect contained in Moore's law is that, as technology evolves and advances to new heights, a larger amount of functionality can be offered at the same cost associated with a particular component count and cost. Apart from the enabling technologies on which researchers, manufacturers and scientists rely to ensure that Moore's law continues, several future-generation technologies are also in development stages. As technologies advance in complexity, the manufacturing processes involved also increase in complexity, which has a direct impact on manufacturing costs.
