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For a context of how microelectronics have shrunk over the years:

Originally, transistors were somewhere around 7mm wide.
One of the historical great CPUs was the Motorola 68000, which crammed 68,000 transistors into the same 7mm square.
Now we can build a M68000 small enough to fit into the space of one of _those_ transistors - ramming 68,000 M68000 CPUs into the same 7mm square.


10 posted on 10/02/2015 10:40:04 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
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Truly mind boogling!


11 posted on 10/02/2015 10:44:37 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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Won’t this extreme miniaturization necessarily imbue these microscopic circuits with a certain fragility so that they will be susceptible to being fried by ever-smaller EM pulses? Perhaps the chip physical construction provides shielding....


16 posted on 10/02/2015 11:20:54 AM PDT by citizen (America is-or wa5s-The Great Melting Pot. JEB won't even speak American in his own home. NO Bush!!)
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