Over the last several years, our industry has been significantly transformed. The way we now do business is dramatically different than the way we did business 20 or 30 years ago. - Stephen Buffat

Companies, research centers and universities active in microelectronics are all facing the headwinds of a – to put it mildly – challenging operating environment. Most believe that the way forward is in relentless innovation – innovation that is taking into account the challenges of the 21st century: the quest for sustain able energy generation, affordable and better healthcare, and an information and communication infrastructure for everyone. - Lode Lauwers

Today there is no limitation in the demands to integrate more and more functions on a semiconductor chip. Moore’s Law has supported this advance for decades. - Kazu Yamada

The challenges facing the semiconductor industry are considerable and include both the technological and the economic. As has always been the case, the two are intertwined. - Tom Sonderman

Spring is here. In our fond memories of springs past, designers would pull out their Moore’s Law calculators, with their single “0.7x” button, to define patterning requirements for the next node. Stepper designers would grow the lens numerical aperture to an “impossible” 0.54, process engineers would tweak the resist and etch processes, and the job would be done. - Janice Golda

Two scaling trends have fueled the last several decades of the information age, which have followed a phenomenal, super-exponential growth in digital computing power per unit cost, per unit device area and per unit calculation time. These are Moore’s Law and Dennard Scaling, which respectively describe increases in integrated circuit density and CMOS circuit speed with continued miniaturization of the circuit elements. Both of these trends are beginning to saturate, as they are being impacted by several physical and practical barriers. - Dan Edelstein

“There is only an inch of water needed beyond the bottom of a ship.” These words could be translated into thin silicon technology: “There is only a micron of silicon needed beyond the active layers.” - Peter Ramm

Many companies in the industry are carefully husbanding their resources for investment in research and development, in preparation for inevitable economic upturn and market resurgence. In recent years, there have been great advancements in innovation and invention of electronics products, largely driven by the imperatives of the expanding consumer market. - William Chen