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The so-called "Moore's Law" phenomenon in the semiconductor industry was proposed by Gordon Moore, one of the founders of Intel. Its content is: The number of transistors that can be accommodated on the integrated circuit will double approximately every 18 months, the performance will also double, and the price will be reduced by half. In the sixty years of the development of the entire semiconductor industry, technological improvements and innovations such as personal computers, the Internet and smart phones are inseparable from the continuation of Moore's Law. However, with the continuous advancement of wafer processing technology, it is becoming more and more difficult to scale down the circuit. In 2009, IBM researchers predicted that the era of "Moore's Law" would end because research and laboratory costs were so high that few companies could afford the financial resources to build and maintain wafer fabs. The author uses the three nodes of TSMC's advanced manufacturing processes (28nm, 16nm and 7nm) in the past ten years as the research subject, and collects the patent abstracts published by the company two years before its process technology enters the mass production period. With the mass production period, the frequency of occurrence will be significantly increased (or decreased), so as to provide our government as a reference for future industrial trends and adjustment of industrial development policies. |