shikamaru317 said:
I believe he was referring to Moore's Law, 7nm was once believed to be the smallest that transistors could ever shrink to based on Moore's Law, because anything smaller would cause quantum tunneling which allows power to escape through the walls of the transistor. However, a new manufacturing process called Gate-All-Around was discovered which will allow that limit to be circumvented at least for a few more die shrinks. So 5nm and smaller manufacturing process will be using Gate-All-Around FET rather than finFET. I do believe that 1nm is the lower limit even with gate-all-around though, so in order to circumvent that lower limit it is currently believed that we will have to design an alternative to binary computers, such as quantum computers, which are still in their infancy. They'd better get their move on making quantum computers work, because that 1nm limit will be reached by the late 2020's most likely and chipsets basically won't be able to get any more powerful after that without making them bigger, more power hungry, and more expensive. |
Yes that is what he was talking about and thanks for that information!
