SIN Graphs
 
   
pg.#
In order of appearence:
17
 Countdown to SIN -logarithmic
18
 Countdown to SIN - linear
19
 Paradigm Shifts for 15 Lists of Key Events
20
 Canonical Milestones
48
 Growth of U.S. Phone Industry
49
 Estimated U.S. Cell Phone Subscribers
50
 Mass Use of Inventions
57
 Dynamic RAM Smallest Feature Size
58
 Dynamic RAM Price
59
 Average Transistor Price
60
 Transistor Manufacturing Costs Falling
61
 Micro Processor Clock Speed
62
 Micro Processor Cost per Transistor Cycle
63
 Transistor per Microprocessor
64
 Processor Performance (MIPS)
65
 Total Bits Shipped
67
 Moore's Law - The Fifth Paradigm
70
 Exponential Growth of Computing
71
 Growth in Supercomputer Power
73
 DNA Sequencing Cost
74
 Growth in Genbank
75
 Random Access Memory
76
 Magnetic Data Storage
77
 Price Performance (Wireless Data Devices)
78
 Internet Hosts - Logarithmic
79
 Internet Hosts - Linear
80
 Internet Data Traffic
81
 Internet Backbone Bandwidth
82
 Decrease in Size of Mechanical Devices
83
 Nanotech Science Citations
84
 U.S. Nanorelated Patents
98
 Real Gross Domestic Product
99
 Per-Capita GDP
101
 Private Manufacturing
104
 E-Commerce Revenues in the United States
106
 U.S. Patents Granted
107
 IT's Share of the Economy
108
 U.S. Education Expenditure
129
 Reduction in Watts per MIPS
159
 Resolution of Noninvasive Brain Scanning
160
 Brain Scanning Image Reconstruction Time
331
 U.S. War Death

 

Year
Wafer Cost/Transistor (Microcents)

Feature Size (Microns)

1
0.7
0.5
0.35
0.25
0.18
0.13
0.09
0.065
1990
22.5
11.2
8.8
1991
21.9
10.3
7.3






1992
21.4
9.9
5.9






1993
20.8
9.7
4.7
4





1994

9.4
4.3
3





1995

8.9
3.9
2.3





1996

8.5
3.6
1.8
1.5




1997


3.2
1.6
1.2




1998


3.3
1.4
0.8
0.7



1999


2.8
1.4
0.8
0.5



2000



1.3
0.7
0.4
0.3


2001



1
0.7
0.3
0.2


2002



0.8
0.6
0.3
0.2


2003




0.6
0.3
0.2
0.1

2004




0.4
0.3
0.1
0.1

2005




0.4
0.3
0.1
8.5

2006





0.3
0.1
6.8
0.05
2007





0.25
0.1
6.1
4.2
2008
9.9
5.6
3.3
2009






0.1
5
2.7
2010







4.7
2.5

Transistor Manufacturing Costs, Wafer Cost / Transistor (Microcents), Logarithmic Plot, pg 60

Source:

Randall Goodall, D. Fandel, and H.Huff, “Long-Term Productivity Mechanisms of the Semiconductor Industry,” Ninth International Symposium on Silicon Materials Science and Technology, May 12–17, 2002, Philadelphia, sponsored by the Electrochemical Society (ECS) and International Sematech.