Term · Process Technology
3D scaling
Pursuing density by building upward, through stacked devices, stacked wafers or stacked packages, rather than by shrinking features laterally. It is the industry's main answer as lithographic shrink becomes uneconomic.
- Also known as
- Vertical scaling, Third dimension scaling
- Type
- Term
- Domain
- Process Technology, Power delivery and 3D
Notes
3D NAND proved the concept commercially years before logic began seriously stacking devices.
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