One of the many interesting things about this project is that it's a reminder how people often take for granted the miniaturization of these things (the micro-

One of the many interesting things about this project is that it's a reminder how people often take for granted the miniaturization of these things (the micro- part in microprocessor). Had we not got the realized size down into the sub-micrometer scale, we would have been forced to contend with heat dissipation making it impractical to increase the performance to what "we're used to" these days. Now that Intel and others are facing issues at ~5-10nm scale, we will be facing a similar "clock" problem again. There are a few paths forward including: i) smarter microprocessor design tuned to intended application use, and ii) increased parallelization of tasks across multiple cores/cpus/machines. Edit: nanometer -> sub-micrometer