Moore's law is hitting a wall, so researchers are stacking silicon chip layers instead of shrinking them

May 31, 2026 - 18:20
Updated: 28 days ago
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Researchers stacked silicon circuit layers to extend computing power beyond traditional scaling limits.

At the Grainger College of Engineering, materials science and engineering professor Qing Cao and his team have built working silicon circuits by stacking active layers directly on top of each other. Instead of adding more devices side by side, they are moving into the third dimension and building stacked layers...

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