It was 1995. Advances in chip technology continued apace with Moore's Law, the observation that the number of transistors on a chip doubles roughly every two years, generally because of the shrinking size of those transistors.

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FinFets之父：胡晨鸣将晶体管带入三维拯救摩尔定律


那是 1995 年。芯片技术在摩尔定律的推动下继续快速进步，摩尔定律指出芯片上的晶体管数量大约每两年就会翻一番，这通常是因为这些晶体管的尺寸不断缩小。