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Re:First claimed successful replication of LK-99 superconduc... by ben7799 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @10:13AM (#36956193)
Many orders of magnitude so.

The last generations of vacuum tube processors were the size of large multi-story office buildings and had 50k tubes.

Compare to your smartphone, it would take billions of tubes to duplicate it.

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Re:First claimed successful replication of LK-99 superconduc... by Thetawaves on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @12:52PM (#36958667)
Later research into thermionic devices did produce miniaturized versions, but nothing close to the scale of silicon transistors today.

If the same R&D might went into thermionics, we might just have devices of similar scales.

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