Ask HN: What comes after we hit the 16nm barrier?

Re:Ask HN: What comes after we hit the 16nm barrier? by Confusion on Monday June 01, 2009 @05:17AM (#635806)

I think two obvious ways forward are

* Increasing the die size (feasable by reducing substrate costs)

* Stacking transistors (3D CPU's)

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Re:Ask HN: What comes after we hit the 16nm barrier? by albertcardona on Monday June 01, 2009 @07:28AM (#635902)

Hopefully they'll (re)invent blood vessels along the way--a.k.a. an effective heat removal system like our brains have.

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Re:Ask HN: What comes after we hit the 16nm barrier? by biotech on Monday June 01, 2009 @10:22AM (#636110)

They can do more than one thing! Why shouldn't they?

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Re:Ask HN: What comes after we hit the 16nm barrier? by joeyo on Monday June 01, 2009 @10:53AM (#636153)

On re-read, I was being snarky. I apologize.

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