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Society has come to depend on the rapid, predictable and affordable scaling of computing performance for consumer electronics, the rise of ‘big data’ and data centers, scientific discovery and national security. The approaching end of lithographic scaling threatens to hinder continued health of the $2T electronics industry, impacting many related fields that depend on computing and electronics. By some projections, within a decade, the technological underpinnings for Moore’s Law will come to an end, as lithography gets down to atomic scale. At that point, it will be feasible to create lithographically produced devices with dimensions nearing atomic scale, where a dozen or fewer silicon atoms are present across critical device features and will therefore represent a practical limit for implementing logic gates for digital computing. In 2019, SEMI launched a special thought leadership” initiative – SEMI Think Tanks – where the leading minds of our industry gather to address the challenges and opportunities for the semiconductor and broader electronics industries with a 20-30 year horizon. SEMI is honored to be the rallying force behind bringing together the industry stalwarts and thought leaders to share their prophetic views in our pioneering Think Tank series on The Future of Computing.