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Why not make computer chips bigger rather than transistors smaller?
Whenever I read an article about computer chip technology it seems that research tends to focus on making transistors smaller and cramming more of them into a chip of the same size. That's an understandable direction for many applications but I'm pretty sure my PC has room for a chip 3 or 4 times the size of my current one :P. Is some other technological limitation making faster chips overkill? Are the speed of chips now more dependent on limiting the distance that electrons have to travel versus how many transistors there are?
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07-07-2003, 01:20 PM
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