and next-generation nanowires as process nodes continued to shrink.

The "story" of the 2020 release was defined by two major pillars:

During this period, Silvaco's TCAD suite became a "digital twin" for researchers. Instead of relying solely on expensive, time-consuming physical prototyping, engineers used these tools to:

at a microscopic level before a single wafer was ever processed.

in emerging markets like IoT, automotive, and high-performance computing (HPC).