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What changed to enable this? I was told a decade ago by my professor that chip makers were facing an issue with electrons jumping across these tiny circuits, a

• pulse7 6y ago
  5 nm in reality is not a 5 nm, but just a marketing name suggesting further optimizations by about 20-40%.
• marcosdumay 6y ago
  Excess electrons and holes in silicon spread through spaces on the order of 10nm. Any smaller features will get mixed up. But that's not really what is happening here. The first thing is that those are feature size, not the size of the dopant region. They are like the size of the pixels on a screen, where the transistors get drawn. The second thing is that this limit is for silicon crystals, and top of line chips are now built in 3D with mixed materials, so you can have an entire crystal that is smaller (at least in one dimension) than that limit.
• imtringued 6y ago
  You need to look at the physical dimensions of the transistor instead of the marketing.