Invisible wrote:
> I doubt it. At that scale, quantum effects would become significant, 

Well, yes. That indeed is the problem people are having. Quantum effects 
are knocking electrons out of the gate and into the substrate, or 
they're tunneling across the restriction zones even when it's switched 
off.  (Likely what I'm remembering is transistors where the active part 
that serves as a barrier is in the dozens-of-atoms size.)

> Also, significantly, transistors don't just grow themselves if you feed 
> them a little nitrogen and AMP. ;-)

There is that, yes.  :-)

I don't really need to have bigger drives. I just need faster drives. :-)

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