By the 1990s, the industry knew about Gate-all-around transistors and anticipated challenges in bringing them into high-volume manufacturing.

“Gate-all-around's a good example 'cause back in the nineties-”

“... we, we knew of this idea, but we knew there was these-- gonna be these problems on, on how you put this into high-volume manufacturing. And at the same time, there's other things like high K metal gate, there's, uh, strained silicon, there's FinFETs that are out there.”