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[–] Streetlights@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Insane engineering. The diameter of a silicon atom is about 0.2nm for context.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

Its magic. Can't believe we have the technology to do so.it does mean we're fast approaching the hard limit where new innovations will have to be made beyond making the electronics smaller and more dense.

[–] Tacoma@feddit.org 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

While it is magic, and great engineering, it is also 'just' marketing, as in, actual physical features are not 1.6nm but more around 20nm, see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_nm_process

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 hours ago

Interesting read!

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago

Perhaps photonic processors will be the next big thing. But that's still well in the future.