If there are other ways, you should patent it because it'll be worth trillions. They're not shrinking it just for the fun of it, they're progressing the techno

If there are other ways, you should patent it because it'll be worth trillions. They're not shrinking it just for the fun of it, they're progressing the technologies to accommodate the explosive growth in computing every year. The major problem with the growth is the energy consumption, we can't sustain it without reducing it. Shrinking the process node allows them to double the transistor capacity without doubling the power requirements and they were on the path of doing it every few years, alas also the Moore's law. Also, the mobile devices are outpacing the desktops, which means the market is demanding lighter, more power-efficient devices. It takes several years and tens of billions of dollars to develop a new fab, so Intel has to predict and work on future technologies continuously the best ways they can; they can't risk losing their businesses to other fabs that is also doing the same thing. DRM is the least of the problem, the biggest part of the Intel CPUs are the integrated graphics now.