Crushing Moore's Law

Freescale is breaking down barriers to Moore's Law through advancements in advanced gate stack that allow continued scaling of the technology. The steady decline in transistor size and improvement in chip performance over the past four decades has enabled countless new electronic devices—from MP3 players and airbag controllers to the Internet and cell phones.

Packing More Transistors Into Less Space

Our research teams are committed to enabling smaller, faster, lower power devices. As Moore's Law has advanced over the past several decades, the industry has reached a point where the traditional gate stack can no longer be scaled without unwanted consequences such as excessive power consumption and potential reliability degradation.

First Out of the Gate

In the world of advanced gate development, researchers look several years in the future to develop processes that can be reliably manufactured in future products. Our research into advanced products has lead to a number of discoveries critical to packing more transistors into less space. Freescale researchers received the highest rating for a paper at VLSI 2003 Symposium for their work on Fermi pinning with polysilicon gates, which leads to unacceptably high threshold voltages. As a result of the work, the industry is now shifting focus to metal. Customer benefits range from smaller, lighter handheld devices with longer battery life to faster computing devices that can handle growing graphic and voice data processing requirements.