report
8.8.5 Additional demand for research

Moore's Law has been governing the development of silicon technology for over 50 years. Fundamentally new concepts, such as molecular electronics, hold the promise of extending Moore's Law beyond the physical limits of silicon in the 2020 timeframe. At the same time, development toward wide-scale emergence of intelligent multifunctional systems is opening up a wide range of new application areas for future computing devices.

Beyond CMOS domain is very long-term research. At this stage, no one is quite yet sure what these technologies will be, but whatever they are, they are unlikely to result in sudden transitions. Candidate technologies will almost certainly have to be first integrated heterogeneously with silicon.