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To: etchmeister who wrote (12304)	12/3/2004 8:36:22 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 25522

Updated ITRS sticks to three-year manufacturing node interval By Peter Clarke Silicon Strategies 12/03/2004, 6:45 AM ET SAN JOSE, Calif. — The 2004 update to the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) has been agreed at the ITRS winter meeting in Japan and is due to be made available to the public next week, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said Thursday (Dec. 2). The overall advancement, as measured by a 30 percent reduction of the half-pitch of DRAM, is forecast to take place at a three year pace, consistent with the doubling of the number of transistors per IC every two years, as predicted by Moore's Law, the SIA said. The ITRS is a consensus reference document with a 15-year outlook on the requirements of the global semiconductor industry. The document outlines the industry's technology challenges and suggests possible solutions. It is then up to semiconductor device makers and equipment and material suppliers to select and execute the detailed implementation. The 2004 ITRS is the seventh version of this roadmap jointly produced by researchers from Europe, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and the USA since 1998. The 2004 document is an update of the 2003 ITRS; the next full re-write of the ITRS is set to be in 2005. In the 2004 update, 128 tables and 12 figures were updated, and four new tables were added, the SIA said. There is renewed focus on lithography, critical dimension control, line-edge roughness, emerging research devices and design for manufacturing, the industry group added. "International cooperation in identifying the challenges to continued progress in semiconductor technology has been of enormous benefit to the semiconductor industry," said George Scalise, the president of the SIA, in a statement. "The ITRS helps both semiconductor manufacturers and equipment suppliers focus their research and development activities on finding practical solutions to the technical obstacles that stand in the way of continuing to double the number of transistors on a chip every two years." The details of the ITRS update are due to published on the ITRS public website (http://public.itrs.net) on Friday, December 10, 2004, the SIA said.