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If you could fit even 9 logic gates into 1 square mm with a construction mechanism that scaled up to 2cm by 2cm you could build a rather capable 8-bit CPU. I d
by Lerc 2y ago
If you could fit even 9 logic gates into 1 square mm with a construction mechanism that scaled up to 2cm by 2cm you could build a rather capable 8-bit CPU.
I do wonder if taking this approach would work better with a novel construction method. Lithography and nasty chemicals are easier for resolution, but nasty chemicals.
On the other hand there will always be someone standing by to tell you an FPGA could have done that.
- fragmede 2y agoAnd someone next to them saying there's a chip that already does that, with someone standing next to them holding a commercial product that does the thing, and someone next to them tell everybody it's all a waste of time. Someone's going to judge what you do regardless. As long as you're not hurting someone else, go build what you want to build, others be damned.
- Lerc 2y agoTotally agree. As creator of a lot of projects where people have asked "Why would you even do that". I wholly encourage build and be damned. I've done Pacman in DCPU-16 asm A HTML/JS desktop environment 8-bit AVR assembler in JavaScript An 8-bit fantasy console with web IDE. and whatever the hell https://c50.fingswotidun.com/ https://c50.fingswotidun.com/ is plus a bunch of other things that really make people wonder if I have any sort of life plan at all.