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Yes, there's probably a limit to how small you can make a transistor. But there are far more fundamental limits to computation, such as how efficient it's poss
by Symmetry 7y ago
Yes, there's probably a limit to how small you can make a transistor. But there are far more fundamental limits to computation, such as how efficient it's possible for a boolean operation to be:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
- deepnotderp 7y agoReversible computing or dumping the information to spin can get around the landauer limit. The Margolus Levitin theorem is more brutal.