As system designers seek to pack ever-more transistors into smaller spaces, monolithic system-on-chips (SoCs) are quickly nearing the reticle ceiling .
To say that semiconductor technology is part of the fabric of modern society is not an overstatement it underpins everything from our cars to our phones to our home appliances. In 2021, the semiconductor industry shipped a record 1.15 trillion chips, and sales topped half a trillion dollars worldwide, while thousands of new chip designs entered…