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Re:Intel is dying and we can’t save it by mhh__ on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:58PM (#25771773)
> A silicon atom is only around 0.1nm wide, so the end of scaling is coming up like a brick wall. We've got maybe a half dozen nodes left.

That's still something like a hundred thousand to a million times smaller that what we can actually fabricate, right?

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Re:Intel is dying and we can’t save it by monocasa on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @11:03PM (#25771821)
You also can't make a transistor out of a single atom. The fact that you need doped silicon to have a semiconductor rather than just silicon as an insulator means that we'll be cut off well before then. A ~50x reduction in feature size (so that's 6ish nodes of shrink) is about what I've heard about industry expectations.

That being said the future never ceases to surprise.

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