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zanny on Oct 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Report: TSMC's 3nm Fab Could Cost $20B

They can just switch to picometers whenever it gets really dumb.

colechristensen on Oct 10, 2017 | [–]

The closest distance between silicon atoms in a crystal is about 235pm, there's not much room with picometers for processor design.

Aeolun on Oct 10, 2017 | | [–]

How do you even pass electrons through a line 6 atoms wide... :S

colechristensen on Oct 10, 2017 | | | [–]

Something like mixing legos with 3d printing and quantum mechanics.

https://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v7/n7/full/nnano.2012.9...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-atom_transistor

mikeash on Oct 9, 2017 | [–]

They already had to do it once, from micrometers to nanometers.

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