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Re:5/3nm Wars Begin by unlinked_dll on Saturday January 25, 2020 @03:06PM (#22148336)
It's called Dennard Scaling [0] and it ran out about 15 years ago

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling

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Re:5/3nm Wars Begin by Dylan16807 on Saturday January 25, 2020 @05:48PM (#22149119)
Having constant power density with continuous performance improvements broke down.

But we're not yet at the point where power density increases as fast as transistor density.

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