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Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? by T-A on Thursday April 05, 2018 @10:35AM (#16765256)
No, saying that we are still an order of magnitude away from dealing with individual atoms. The current slowdown is more about light than about atoms; the move to EUV lithography [1] has proved to be very challenging [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithograph...

[2] https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/nanotechnology/euv-...

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