Why the Best Days of Open Hardware are Yet to Come

Re:Why the Best Days of Open Hardware are Yet to Come by j_m_f on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @08:21PM (#3024252)

Although I do agree that Open Hardware has a bright future, I'd just like to point out that people have been calling the end of transistor size scaling for a few decades, and technology keeps finding ways to get around the limitations (strained silicon, high-k metal gates, finFETs, etc.).

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Re:Why the Best Days of Open Hardware are Yet to Come by Estragon on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @10:50PM (#3024651)

From the article:

  > 5 nm is about the space between 100 silicon atoms, so even if this
  > guess is wrong, it can be wrong by no more than a few technology
  > generations.

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Re:Why the Best Days of Open Hardware are Yet to Come by j_m_f on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @11:55PM (#3024784)

My point is that, even in that case (current silicon scaling stopping at 5nm), there are a lot of potential technologies that could allow Moore's law to continue (nanowires, III-V materials, etc.).

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