In the case of silicon, it's galloped for 41 years, ever since Fairchild Semiconductor and Texas Instruments shrunk a transistor from three dimensions into two and etched it in silicon.
In 1959 Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor and Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments each invented the integrated circuit, etching a transistor onto a two- dimensional chip of silicon.
Intel is in the game, and the 3D Tri-Gate transistor capability at the 22nm node puts Intel approximately three years ahead of anybody in the world of semiconductor manufacturing, in our opinion, which is unprecedented.