5 ms·

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

• mikeash 9y ago
  They already had to do it once, from micrometers to nanometers.
• colechristensen 9y ago
  The closest distance between silicon atoms in a crystal is about 235pm, there's not much room with picometers for processor design.
  • Aeolun 9y ago
    How do you even pass electrons through a line 6 atoms wide... :S
    • colechristensen 9y ago
      Something like mixing legos with 3d printing and quantum mechanics. https://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v7/n7/full/nnano.2012.94.html?foxtrotcallback=true https://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v7/n7/full/nnano.2012.9... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-atom_transistor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-atom_transistor