On August 19, it was reported by foreign media that Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel, pointed out in the 1960s that the number of transistors in integrated circuits would double every two years, a phenomenon known as "Moore's Law". The more the number of transistors, the higher the performance and efficiency of the chip. What affects the number of transistors in the chip is the manufacturing process.

TSMC and Samsung have mass produced chips with 7nm process. They plan to produce chips with 5nm process next year. However, the mass production date of the next 3nm chip seems uncertain, so some people suspect that Moore's Law will be invalid.

Last week, Godfrey Cheng, TSMC's global marketing director, published an article discussing Moore's Law. He said that TSMC would adhere to innovation, continue to reduce the size of a single transistor, and install more transistors together.

Godfrey Cheng pointed out that since Moore's Law is essentially based on the increase of density, more transistors can be compressed into integrated circuits through various methods. The first is to improve packaging, which is the industry term for chip shells; Another way is to turn from silicon to two-dimensional materials, and TSMC is looking for such materials in the periodic table of elements.

Godfrey Cheng believes that Moore's Law has not died out, and there are many different ways to continue to increase density. In the foreseeable future, the functions of mobile phones will become more and more powerful.

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