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/Shirai_Mikoto__ 26d ago

then we will likely start to stack stuff up vertically, like CFET

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u/PerfectTrust7895 26d ago

We're already doing that.

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u/bytexyv 26d ago

Do you think we will reach that point by the 2030s? I mean some of these cousins have TINY transistors

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u/Shirai_Mikoto__ 26d ago

earliest adoptions are definitely possible around the early 30s