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Khoth comments on Scenario analyses for technological progress for the next decade - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: VipulNaik 14 July 2014 04:31PM

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Comment author: Khoth 14 July 2014 06:51:38PM 1 point [-]

"28nm is actually the last node of Moore's Law" is referring to the "Density at minimum cost per transistor" version of Moore's Law, not the "smallest feature size we can get".

Comment author: jimrandomh 14 July 2014 08:00:42PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, but if the cost per transistor were going up, you'd expect them to stop there. But a little googling turned up this press release talking about 14nm, and this roadmap which extends out to 5nm.

Comment author: [deleted] 15 July 2014 10:00:10PM 1 point [-]

There are applications where smaller sizes make sense, even at higher cost.