Since 1960, the semiconductor industry has invented Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET) and Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technologies. Subsequently, the semiconductor-based integrated circuit industry has led a new generation of information revolution, driving the rapid development of various electronic circuit technologies worldwide. With the physical limitations of the silicon semiconductor process, Moores Law is also approaching its physical limit. In the search for new semiconductor materials, carbon nanotube semiconductors have become one of the candidate materials for new semiconductor materials due to their many advantages, and their many characteristic parameters are even better than those of silicon semiconductors of the same size. This article introduces the research status, performance characteristics, and comparison of silicon-based and carbon-based integrated circuits, as well as the current application scenarios of silicon-based and carbon-based integrated circuits in the industry, and the many problems encountered. Finally, this article analyses the future development direction of the integrated circuit industry and the possible challenges it may face.