Integrated circuits through the year 2010

This paper will review recent research results which have demonstrated the viability of silicon integrated circuits to sub 0.1 micron dimensions. CMOS devices, with unity gain frequencies in excess of 100 GHz have been achieved at voltages low enough (<2.0 V) to control power dissipation. Equivalent advances in packaging, CAD and testing will result in an electronics capability with a thousand fold improvement over today´s cost/performance results. The article also addresses the potential impact of these device advances on the telecommunications, computer and entertainment industries. The advent of increased bandwidth, multimedia capability and high performance computing, will create inexpensive, intelligent terminals which will increasingly become the drivers for the the consumer products market place