What are the constraints of shrinking silicon? What was stopping

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2016-01-27 04:03:06 Post No. 52644538
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Anonymous 2016-01-27 04:03:06 Post No. 52644538 [Report]

What are the constraints of shrinking silicon?

What was stopping foundries from pumping out 14nm chips in 2010? Was it the lithography? Is there some sort of dependence on earlier slightly larger silicon in order to create newer slightly smaller nodes?

Why does silicon only get ~30% smaller every year? What's preventing them from just saying "Oh shit, transistors are gonna be 200% smaller in a few years. Let's just do what we'd have then, except now!"?

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Anonymous 2016-01-27 04:15:48 Post No.52644678
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Anonymous 2016-01-27 04:15:48 Post No.52644678 [Report]

>>52644538
You are retarded. If you are actually old enough to post here and post such dumb questions then that is the only conclusion I have for you.

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Anonymous 2016-01-27 04:17:53 Post No.52644699
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Anonymous 2016-01-27 04:17:53 Post No.52644699 [Report]

>>52644538
shrinking means finding new ways of making transistors smaller. the reason this is hard is that electricity can travel through material at a very small scale, they call it leaking.
so basically they have to find new materials that don't leak as bad or think of new ways to make transistors like 3d transistors.

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Anonymous 2016-01-27 04:23:17 Post No.52644777
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Anonymous 2016-01-27 04:23:17 Post No.52644777 [Report]

>>52644538
Why don't scientists just come out with high net output nuclear fusion power? Like they know how to do it in theory, so why don't they just make it today instead of years from now?

The answer is that absolutely enormous R&D is done in stages.