Miniaturization innovation evolution of electronics packaging - What´s coming next …?

Intel´s Moore´s Law focuses on shrinking the transistors in the silicon to be able to pack more and more transistors for a given area. In general, Intel has been able to double the transistor count every 18–24 months and has been doing so while keeping the silicon size at about the same size or even smaller. The key implication to that trend has been the I/O density that needs to be routed through the packaging is also increasing (ie. More I/O count per area).