摩尔定律最终的失效是不可避免的――至少对于硅工艺如此。为了在一块微芯片上塞进更多硅晶体管而进一步缩小其尺寸将变得不可能,或者至少太过昂贵。研究员期望着有一天开发出替代材料,比如砷化镓、石墨和碳纳米管。希望这些材料制造的晶体管能比硅制晶体管更小、更快、能效更高。“我们需要向工具箱里添加更多的材料,”英特尔部件研发主任迈克尔.马 The ultimate failure of Moore’s Law is inevitable - at least for the silicon process. It will become impossible, or at least too expensive, to further reduce its size in order to stuff more silicon transistors on a microchip. Researchers are looking forward to one day developing alternative materials such as gallium arsenide, graphite and carbon nanotubes. It is hoped that transistors fabricated from these materials will be smaller, faster and more energy efficient than silicon transistors. “We need to add more material to the toolbox, ” Intel’s director of research and development components Michael.