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Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? by donquichotte on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @03:57AM (#16752887)
Is it? I was under the impression that we are hitting physical barriers, like transistor size getting closer and closer to Silicon atom size.
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Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? by orbital-decay on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @04:18AM (#16752972)
It's still technically possible to make chips with smaller nodes than the current mainstream processes allow, although this is uneconomical due to low yields and extremely thin margins.
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