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The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors is a set of documents produced by a group of semiconductor industry
Semiconductor industry

The semiconductor industry is the aggregate collection of companies engaged in the Electronic_design_automation and Fabrication of semiconductor devices....
 experts. These experts are representative of the sponsoring organisations which include the Semiconductor Industry Association
Semiconductor Industry Association

The Semiconductor Industry Association is a trade association representing the United States semiconductor industry. It is located in San Jose, California....
s of the US, Europe, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, Korea
Korea

Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia....
 and Taiwan
Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
.

The documents produced carry this disclaimer: "The ITRS is devised and intended for technology assessment only and is without regard to any commercial considerations pertaining to individual products or equipment".

The documents represent best opinion on the directions of research into the following areas of technology, including time-lines up to about 15 years into the future:



History
With the progressive externalization of production tools to the suppliers of specialized equipment, the need arose for a clear roadmap to anticipate the evolution of the market and to plan and control the technological needs of IC production.






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The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors is a set of documents produced by a group of semiconductor industry
Semiconductor industry

The semiconductor industry is the aggregate collection of companies engaged in the Electronic_design_automation and Fabrication of semiconductor devices....
 experts. These experts are representative of the sponsoring organisations which include the Semiconductor Industry Association
Semiconductor Industry Association

The Semiconductor Industry Association is a trade association representing the United States semiconductor industry. It is located in San Jose, California....
s of the US, Europe, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, Korea
Korea

Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia....
 and Taiwan
Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
.

The documents produced carry this disclaimer: "The ITRS is devised and intended for technology assessment only and is without regard to any commercial considerations pertaining to individual products or equipment".

The documents represent best opinion on the directions of research into the following areas of technology, including time-lines up to about 15 years into the future:

  • System Drivers/Design
  • Test & Test Equipment
  • Front End Processes
  • Photolithography
    Photolithography

    Photolithography is a process used in microfabrication to selectively remove parts of a thin film . It uses light to transfer a geometric pattern from a photomask to a light-sensitive chemical on the substrate....
  • IC Interconnects
  • Factory Integration
  • Assembly & Packaging
  • Environment, Safety & Health
  • Yield Enhancement
    Design for manufacturability (IC)

    Achieving high-yielding designs in the state of the art, Very-large-scale integration technology has become an extremely challenging task due to the miniaturization as well as the complexity of leading-edge products....
  • Metrology
    Metrology

    Metrology is the science of measurement. Metrology includes all theoretical and practical aspects of measurement....
  • Modeling & Simulation
    Simulation

    Simulation is the imitation of some real thing, state of affairs, or process. The act of simulating something generally entails representing certain key characteristics or behaviors of a selected physical or abstract system....
  • Emerging Research Devices
  • Emerging Research Materials


History


With the progressive externalization of production tools to the suppliers of specialized equipment, the need arose for a clear roadmap to anticipate the evolution of the market and to plan and control the technological needs of IC production. For several years, the Semiconductor Industry Association
Semiconductor Industry Association

The Semiconductor Industry Association is a trade association representing the United States semiconductor industry. It is located in San Jose, California....
 (SIA) gave this responsibility of coordination to the USA, which led to the creation of an American style roadmap, the National Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (NTRS). In 1998, the SIA became closer to its European, Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese counterparts by creating the first global roadmap: The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS). This international group has (as of the 2003 edition) 936 companies which were affiliated with working groups within the ITRS.

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