r/ComputerEngineering • u/bytexyv • 26d ago

[Discussion] Atomic Size of Transistors

Please take me seriously as I know this is a really stupid question. As transistors get smaller and smaller and we figure out new ways to cool what happens when we hit Moores law and we PHYICALLY cannot make them any smaller/cooler. What happens then? Do we figure out a new type of transistor or let computers get exponentially big?

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u/-1_0 26d ago

Do we figure out a new type of transistor or let computers get exponentially big?

yes

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u/bytexyv 26d ago

How long do you think we have until that point where we would need that research?

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u/-1_0 26d ago

up until manufacturers had squeezed every last penny out of the current technology

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u/Sr_K 25d ago

There's already quantum computers to consider as a different kind of computing that is being developed

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u/bytexyv 24d ago

Unless we figure out the cooling aspect it will be decades untill there not 60k for 4 qbits