Chip Technologies as the Engine for IT Revolution

Summary form only given. Chip technologies have been one of the most powerful engines for the computer and IT revolution, and this trend will continue toward the future. Chip innovations will be reviewed through three different pattenrs: disruptive innovation, exponential innovation or Moore´s Law, and cyclical innovation or Makimoto´s Wave. These innovations played key roles for the "democratiziation of computing," starting from state level machine, to company level machine, to group level machine, to personal level machine. Based on the long-term forecast of chip technologies, future outlook of societal changes will be provided. There will be a marked progress in Robotics supported by AI, IoT and chip innovations.