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Why don't you see Moore's law progressing beyond 3nm and maybe even stopping at 7nm or 10nm?

• PeCaN 10y ago
  Physics comes to mind, also that Moore's law stopped in the strict sense (doubling every 18 months) years ago.
• ansible 10y ago
  Why don't you see Moore's law progressing beyond 3nm and maybe even stopping at 7nm or 10nm? At that size, defects of just a couple silicon atoms (approximately 0.2nm diameter) starts to become an issue. Photo lithography requires higher frequencies of "light" for smaller features, which also becomes more of a pain to deal with. And that doesn't even get into the quantum effects at that scale, which is whole 'nother barrel of headaches. I'm still surprised at the (seemingly to me) lack of research in molecular nanotechnology. We're rapidly approaching the point where we do need to precisely control the placement of each individual atom for these products. You'd think the boards of directors and major investors would be pushing these companies harder to develop the next generation technologies. Though Wall Street itself barely cares about the next three months.
• deepnotderp 10y ago
  Yields, quantum effects and lithography problems.