ROFL, Drashek RULZ!

On the epic side of un-uniformity and aforementioned acronyms.

Wow.

'Nuff said. If he really is a bot, I want to know anything and everything about it. If he's a real person, he's still awesome.

At 90 nm, barton core has from 12,000,000 to 30,000,000 transitors. Now at 45 nm or half, trannie count is near 1 billion or more, up to 100 times more.

From 45 nm to 22 nm is half & from billion to ?100 billion transistors. it policy to make it so complex, little guys fall out.

Large Transistor Plantations of Old South, Come to Mind.Impossible?
Yet, if semicon right, theres still another doubling possible to 12 nm. 3 terraflops of trannie beds. Is That Practical Number?

5 nm is size of filter that oil comapnies use to convert heavy hydrocarbons into worthless gasoline. So You might end up with liquid trannies. thats about 13 years of developement, if engineers could keep pace. Then BOTS Will Rule.
Kill dave, Kill dave. an old adage with large scale twist.

13 More YEARS of DRASHEK, Extreme Luxury. Then What? 13 nm cell run on Body Heat. Hummm, BOTS ?Lose.

Back in the day I cracked more then one OC transistor :)

http://www.donberg.ie/pics/o/oc_75.jpg

Good to see that old materials comes back in a new way.

I'm puzzled. You claim the story is about advances in silicon processing, yet all the technologies quoted are not based on silicon at all, except maybe SOI, but the salient feature of SOI is not the silicon but the insulator base material.

It's time to move away from Si, it has had its day in the sun, there are much better materials.

BTW, I've figured out the trick behind the black on black on black control panel in Disaster Area's sunship. It's graphene on carbon, natch, with the displays using black OLEDs. I plan on incorporating the same technology into the next nuclear plant control panel I design. Should be quite a hit with the NRC, not to mention the operators.