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Subject: Re: How Small Can a Microprocessor Get?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:03:10 10/27/02

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On October 27, 2002 at 10:42:05, Bob Durrett wrote:

>How Small Can a Microprocessor Get?
>
>Maybe the question should be:  "How many microprocessors per square inch on a
>wafer will be doable in the future?
>
>Part of the my problem is that I do not know how many electronic components
>[resistive, transistor, etc.] are required to make a microprocessor.  How many?
>
>
>Bob D.


Typical for today is 50M transistors.  So the question becomes, "how small
can a transistor be made?"  No definitive answer to that one _yet_.  Each time
someone gives a bound, it is broken a couple of years later...




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